Tour the Tent - First Stop

Good morning!

Hope you're doing great. I want to welcome you to Grace this morning and introduce myself. If you're new, my name is Jeff, my amazing wife Jessica and I are the youth pastors here at Grace and I get the privilege of serving on the Teaching team. We have two adorable kiddos, whom I'm sure to talk about later, our little boy is one and into literally everything in existence. Our little girl is four and she thinks she owns this place. With that said, I get the honor bringing the message today and jumping into the first few items inside of the Tabernacle. Trust me, this is going to be pretty cool!

Pray

I realized something this week, I've used over 200gb of storage on my phone.

I looked into it, I have over 13,000 photos. I remember when my phone only had 8gb of storage on it altogether. And I was fine! You know what changed? I had kids.

No lie, I looked into it, just about half of my storage is in photos and it's all of the kids. It's craziness. It's funny but you can tell on social media when someone becomes a parent, it's like their entire online presence instantly changes. You'd think they sold the car and gave away the dog because all you see now is baby pictures and updates. Which, I'm not complaining, I'm a parent now, I get it. I didn't always, that I'll admit. But one thing, parents, please stop setting your profile picture as a picture of your child. We love your child too, but it really confuses those of us who are bad with names. Thank you.

But it does, it changes. When you have kids they begin to take over your entire life, but that's not a bad thing. It's how it's supposed to be. I'll admit, pre-kids Jeff thought it was weird and people went overboard. Post-kids Jeff has 13,000 pictures of a one year old's birthday party. Why, because when something is important to you, you focus on it. You capture it. You want to remember every little detail, so you setup safeguards so you don't forget those details. Today, we photograph and video. In biblical times, they wrote things down. In excruciating detail.