Well, for our time of study and the word this morning, what a journey it's been. we've been doing a study, through Romans 567 and 8. And if we were to continue with that this morning, we would be arriving at chapter 7, verse 14 and beginning to wade into the second half of Romans chapter 7. I, I've spent 3 weeks getting ready for this particular Sunday and studying ahead on the second half of Romans 7 and I have to confess to you, I am still not ready to preach.
from Romans 7:14 and, and following. What I'm realizing is I need to spend a little bit of time studying a little more deeply into Romans 8 to help me figure out some things in Romans 7. So I'm going to beg your indulgence, and, and, ask if we can wait till Romans 7 and confess to you that I am not ready to preach that sermon, this morning. All I can say is I'm sorry, the good I wanted to do, I didn't get it done.
OK. But we got to do something this morning, right? And if I can't preach from Romans 7, we need to do something, and there were two alternatives that I had, had it narrowed down to of what we could do during this particular time. Alternative number 1 was we could show a VeggieTales video.
but we, I was not able to get unanimous approval from the elder board on that. We, we fell shy of unanimity on that alternative. So what we're gonna do instead is, is what, what you see here on the screen is I, I wanna talk to you guys this morning on the subject of some practical thoughts regarding preaching the gospel to yourself. 11 of these days, we're gonna need to do a sermon series on like code expressions that are frequently used here at Cornerstone....
