Good morning, Westminster.

Happy 5th of July.

I hope all of you are enjoying the holiday weekend and all of the celebrations.

It is a joy and an honor to get to be with all of you today.

It has been such a gift to me for getting to have been here for the past year on youth staff in all the ways I've been loved well by this church.

Our passage for this morning comes at the end of a conversation Jesus is having about John the Baptist.