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Wednesday night, Pastor Chris (Chris Tidwell) starts with a hard day at work — one meeting after another, a million-dollar helicopter transmission rolled over in the back of a FedEx truck — and makes the point that none of that gets to take the joy of our salvation. Then he takes us to Matthew 13 and the merchant who found one pearl and sold everything he had to buy it. A pearl is not carved out of rock or made with fire. It starts with an irritant that gets inside the oyster

Bro. Keith continues the Sunday School study through Hebrews, picking up where the class left off in the sixth chapter. He reads verses 1 through 8 again and finishes the hard part: why the writer says it is impossible for those who fall away to be renewed again unto repentance. The answer is in the verse itself — they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame. Bro. Keith walks it back to the crowd before Pilate that chose Barabbas over Jesus, a