It doesn't matter how late at night it might be, I'm like, "Should we start a Lord of the Rings marathon?"

[laughs] Woo!

Our culture doesn't understand the power and the value and the beauty of-

of-Of friendship.

When you're lining up at Woolies and there's those magazines on the, the counter, on the, the stands there.

I don't know how they still sell those things with the internet [laughs] and social media, but what, what's on the cover of those magazines? It's not who's best friends with who, it's who's sleeping with who.

That's what people wanna know.

That's what people are intrigued about.

say to us

is life-changing.

Are you ready? Let's jump into it.

1 John chapter 5 from verse 6 through to 15.

I love the, like, this is the guy who wrote the book of Revelation.

He's, you can tell when he started to talk like this, he's like, this guy, he's getting ready to write Revelations.

Have a look how he starts this.

death

Yeah.

Nig's booked on one of our group days, 'cause obviously he's a keen angler himself, and, uh, he'd come along and he...

We got chatting afterwards, and obviously he was asking me if I'd be interested in, like, training and stuff, 'cause he noticed that I was struggling with my back.

He'd ha- he'd been asking me questions like, "Do you get tired," et cetera.

And, uh, he could see just by the way I was walking, like I've always had, like, this slight limp 'cause my hip's, uh, two inch higher than the other from me accident years ago, and he spotted that straight away.

So he was like, "Have you ever been interested in training?" I'm like, "No." He's like, "In- interested in your nutrition?" I was like, "Yeah, I might be interested in losing some weight." Um, so I was keen on that.

So I got chatting to him, and obviously he told me the benefits of, like, strength training and why I was getting a bad back, why I'm getting, um, like, uh, why I'm feeling tired through nutrition, et cetera, and it just sort of come from there.

Why not? [laughs]

We hope this blesses you, so sit back, relax, and enjoy this podcast.

[gentle music] We are on the third week of our Children of God series as we travel through the Book of 1 John, and, uh, we're gonna jump straight into it.

Um, bring it up on the screen.

There it is.

So we're looking at from 1 John 2:3-11.

In the first week, we looked at the first four verses of the Book of 1 John, and, uh, John was talking about that we can have fellowship, real fellowship with the real God, and that that is how we experience complete joy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

[laughs]

... and I'm shipping back across and putting another 200 mil of bait on top of them.

And people are probably stood behind me like, "What is he doing? They're already there." Because in theory, most other venues in the country you would feed less bait and just catch what's there.

You don't need to attract them because they're already there, but you're not gonna win with F1s doing that.

It's really hard to catch 100 pound of F1s doing that.

The only way to do it is to feed very, very little bait and fish for one at a time, but you need to draw the carp in and that's where volume of bait is really important, and it's like, it's probably my favorite style of fishing.

So the, there's not many things you have an edge in, in fishing.

Yeah

So sit back, relax, and enjoy this podcast.

We're starting a brand new series today on the book of 1 John called Children of God.

Yeah, it's going to be fantastic.

Yeah, it's going to be great.

It's a relatively short book in the New Testament, but has massive power and implications for us, and so I'm really looking forward to that.

Who was part of our Burning Heart Young Adult Conference last week? Wasn't that amazing? Yeah, incredible.

Such a great time.

became knowable in Christ.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy this podcast.

brought an incredible message to us last week.

And it really just sort of stirred some things up in me that I would love to share with our church this morning.

So we're gonna open up the Bible to John chapter four.

John chapter four.

Always a privilege to open the Bible at any time and place.

Here we go.

until they rest in Him.

keep your voice down.

After this, we can escape.

Paul shouts to the jailer, don't harm yourself.

Don't kill yourself.

We're all here.

The prisoners have not escaped.

The jailer called for lights, rushed in, and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.

my witnesses.

Bagger, 2025, biggest learning point for you?

It's not something that's new, but something that I've definitely adapted to, and that's probably overshotting.

Because, like, in the past, I've always just been a little bit stubborn.

I've caught enough to sort of keep doing well.

But this year, I feel like... without the overshot rig, I would have missed out on a lot of fish.

And obviously, I learned a lot about it last winter going into the colder months like these days when you put a normal rig on and you won't get a bite and it doesn't work.

And in my head, that doesn't make sense.

You've done a lot of it at