Be back here with you folks. I am just thrilled to be back here in downtown. Is it Monroeville? Am I saying it correctly? In downtown Monroeville and at Hardingville Bible Church. I was here, as Pastor mentioned, for the school graduation, and I don't really get to know the church family as a whole during that time because there's so much activity. with reference to the school, the graduates in which the emphasis is there, rightly so. And then of course, I was honored to stay over on Sunday to preach on Sunday. So I kind of got to touch base with you a little bit, but we haven't had a lot of time together. But as I was pulling onto the parking lot this morning, I thought, Lord, you've been so good to me. Thank you for the incredible privilege to be able to count you as a church family of friends that we can I can get to know, and we can get associated with to a degree, and I'm honored to be here with you. This is my life. Every Sunday, almost every Sunday of my life, I'm in a different location, in a different church, and I just love it. It's a great privilege. Number one, I love the Lord's Day. I hope you love Sundays. I love the Lord's Day. I stepped out of the house a moment ago, and I just enjoyed this. Is it always this nice around here, weather-wise? Is it always really good in South Jersey? This is not bad. I'm about ready to move up. If I get that charger, I promise I'm gonna ask for a staff position. I really am. But I was just thinking, this is just a beautiful time to be here. And then of course, to be able to just enjoy the Lord's day with you. I love Sundays. And then I love the Lord's people. I love the opportunity to be able to come and be with a church family. Some of us have met before and you're gonna have to, and I hate to do this, you're gonna have to give me your name again. I wish I could remember all the names that I have met through the years, but you'll just have to be patient with me. Hopefully by the end of our time together on Wednesday, I will know you. If I call you Susan or Sharon. or Sally, and your real name is George, forgive me, all right? I will try to get a name and a face and get it together. But anyway, it would be real helpful if you'd be here for all the services. And that's kind of a plug for me to promote every single service for you to be here. and hope that you can plan, and if you could wear the same clothes, that would be a real help too. If you change clothes on me, that messes me up, but anyway, we'll do our best. I'll do my best to get a name and a face and connect you with who you are. Most of you probably sit in the same seats most every service, so that's a help too. My wife, when she's with me, she says to me, Morris, one of my biggest fears is when I come into a church that I might get somebody's seat, you know, where somebody is seated, where that's their seat. And I said, well, sit on the front row. No one ever sits on the front row. I said, you'll be plenty safe up there. But anyway, I wish you could meet my wife. She and I have been married, unbelievable, for 49 years. This next year, we'll be hitting that big golden anniversary. It helps that we got married when we were only two years old. And so that's very beneficial. But man, I can't believe how fast the time has flown by. And I love my sweet Lynn for more than I ever have in our lifetime. We just enjoy life together and ministry together. We have two sons, one of which is a pastor in Reno, Nevada. You can believe it. Reno is a, they call themselves the biggest little city in America. They wanna be another Las Vegas. Our son went there to start a church, and the church is just over two years old, about two and a half now, and they have really made a dent into the community. About 100 people are coming on a given Sunday. We're just rejoicing at what God's doing in their ministry out there, our other son. is a businessman in Kansas City, Missouri, and doing very well, faithful in his church, just a faithful, supportive layman, I hate that word, but a helper in the church there. at his church in Kansas City, and we're grateful for, most of all, for seven grandkids. I mean, how many of you are grandparents? You know what I'm talking about? Why didn't I start with that? You know, I mean, that's where life really begins. Anyway, very grateful for our family. That's just a quick backdrop because sometimes some people wanna know, you got any kids? You got any? So there you have it. Pastor's already mentioned that I've been in evangelism. You know, that term, people say, what is your title, evangelist? What do we call you? And I just say, just call me Morris. You know, that's the safest thing to do. I was a pastor for several years, not in the senior pastor role, but as an associate pastor for many years. worked with teenagers for many years. We started a camp ministry out west in Flagstaff, Arizona. And we started that, we were there for five years and grateful for that good ministry. And now for these 24 years, been doing what we call evangelism. My heart beats for the local church. My heart resonates. for God's people. Oh, I love the lost. I wanna see the lost come to Christ, don't you? I mean, what greater joy than to see someone turn their life over to the Lord. That's a great delight, great privilege to see someone come to Christ. You may think, well, okay, you're tagged evangelist. Is every sermon, every message gonna be strictly the gospel? No, it will include the gospel because what else is there? I mean, you've got to make sure that everything is based and centered on the good news that Jesus saves. But my heart resonates and desires to be, as your pastor said twice, a season of refreshment for the church. I love God's people and we need to be refreshed. We do. When I was a kid growing up, I don't know if you played sports, but when I played sports, One of the best part of the game was halftime, because you got to go into the locker room, get away from the crowd, get away from the screaming, get away from the refs, get away from everything else, the opponent, and just be with the family, the team. And in that locker room, we would be refreshed, we would drink and Mothers don't wanna hear this, but we, here, your turn, you know, I mean, you know, we'd all, it makes me sick to think that we would do that now, but as a kid, it didn't make any difference, you know, drinking the Gatorade, the water and so forth, and we would be refreshed. Well, my prayer is that during these four very fast moving days, we will come together in your beautiful locker room, and be refreshed and we're all gonna drink from the same well. I have nothing of my own mind and personality and philosophy and you certainly don't want more politics. I have nothing like that to present to you. Everything we're looking for is found right here within the pages of this book. And the emphasis as Bible conference is that we're gonna dig into God's holy word and it will refresh each one of us. And the person next to you may have a spiritual need that you don't have, and your needs are not what somebody else has, and yet God's mighty power meets the needs of every individual that's in this room. You say, well, what? What are you gonna preach on tonight? What are you gonna preach on this week? You know, something I don't know yet. And that's something I was telling Brother Ben a moment ago, I wish I had some outlines to throw up on the screen. I love that. I love it when, if I ever get to sit under somebody else's preaching and they have that, and I've used it from time to time, but I don't have anything yet to present and say, here's what I'll be doing on Monday night. I don't know. I wake up every day with two thoughts on my mind. Number one, Where am I? You know, that's the first thing I think, because I'm in different places all the time. It happened this morning. You know, okay, oh yeah, South Jersey. Okay, and then secondly, I think, when do I preach again? Lord, what do you want me to preach? Because I don't want to get in your way. I don't want to mess up your plan.