EP: 29 "We might get Bowie Back!”

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Howdy, and welcome to episode 29 of Hello Fairview, your local podcast made right here

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in Fairview for people in Fairview, Tennessee and the surrounding areas.

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well it's still definitely construction busy you can wait anywhere from five to 20 minutes in the

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morning and afternoon to make a left or even a right on highway 100 and old cox between there

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and the rec center the sidewalk project from buoy to the rec center is in full swing they've been

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installing drains through driveways as they you know head to the west side of that cumberland

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intersection after that mini bridge and culvert that they built they have been lane closures that

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have caused serious backups here and there. The road closures have also been further down towards

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the rec center in the school. There's been a lot of problems with school pickup times because

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they're not done at 2 30 and there's still one lane closed, um, or the whole roads closed.

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And, uh, it's making things very difficult to pick up your child, uh, in middle school,

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high school, or elementary school, um, to get in and out because of that. So it's really just

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luck of the draw if how bad the lane closure is going to affect you every day. Red light update.

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Well, we still have five. Old Cox, Publix, Walmart, and the two at I-40. We'll eventually get the one

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at City City entrance and probably I think it's later this year, the very end of this year or

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beginning of next year will be the Cumberland and 100 intersection as that expansion occurs.

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We're not sure how much that's going to help or hurt, but you know, the crossing guard does a good

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job, at least at the school side during those rush hours. City centers, you know, they're still

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digging over there, you know, making some of that, the mountain to fill dirt is in the back there.

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But one thing traffic related, TDOT released their 10 year plan. We put that in the show notes there

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and there's lots of projects in the state, but nothing for us in the next 10 years, which is

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kind of crazy. So basically TDOT has us in four different regions for the state. We are in region

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three. We'll call that middle Tennessee-ish that we're used to. And there are projects in Williamson

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County, but there's nothing for us. There's I-65, Saturn Parkway widening getting ready to happen.

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You know, it's $150 million, 2026 through 2028, State Road 397, Mack Hatcher Memorial Parkway,

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and that widening $100 million starting in 2027, ending in 2032.

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And SR11 Allen and Nolensville Road and Sunset Road to Burkett Road.

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So basically like 14 miles of widening.

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That is $104 million might design in 2023 and not get done until 2036.

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So I think this just proves that there's nothing special happening for us anytime soon.

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And that if we think about how much bigger Nolensville is, they are still waiting another 10 years before their project is going to finish and another four years for it to even start with that major traffic problem.

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We're growing.

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Well, Bowie Park cleanup has finally been started up and the process has begun to remove all the leaners and hangers in the park, which is going to help out a ton.

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So hopefully this is going to keep going.

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But, you know, I wanted to make sure and look at this, you know, Phillips Environmental and their estimate for cleanup was one point two six million two six seven million dollars with one million dollars completed thus far.

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That's them monitoring the cleanup.

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They're not the cleaner uppers.

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If the parks were included in scope, you know, additional $94,000 would be needed to, you know, get the 700 hangers that are there.

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Thompson Engineering and their part, their mulch removal, $92,000.

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For the right-of-way, for the park, $68,000.

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And for the right-of-way, $141,000.

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So basically the budget check that I was just trying to figure out is it looks like, you know, with the city manager situation, I want to dive a little deeper into it.

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And it looks like the second page tells us everything we need to know that we were already estimated last year, last June, July, last year, the fiscal year, that we would be $3.13 million in the hole with $12 million in income with $15 million in expenses.

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I put the link in the show notes and basically we can see like taxes have went up 7.6 to 8.2 to 8.7.

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So overall, like cash receipts of money coming in has went from 10 to 11 to 12 million.

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But at that exact same time, our budget went from 10 million to 11 million.

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And then the previous last year, which is kind of crazy, went from $11 million to $17 million.

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And this year we went down to $15 million.

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But one of the things that's on there is a capital outlay.

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Obviously, our city's been growing and we've been growing more staff, so that makes it much more expensive.

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So like the police department went from $2.7 million in 2023 to $3.1 million there.

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The fire department went up $300,000.

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Parks Department went up $300,000.

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And this is rough numbers.

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I'm not doing the exact math here.

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But everything's grown except the debt service.

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That's pretty 789 to 787,000 every single year.

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Board of Commissioners went up just slightly for one more person.

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But this capital outlay in 2023 was 869,000.

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Then it went to $6 million.

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And this year it's $3.2 million, which if we look at the multi-million dollars that we need for the cleanup,

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plus the fire truck plus us trying to get ready for all these other things.

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We have a bigger shortfall than obviously what was estimated with this storm,

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but we knew we were already going to have a bad year based on the news from June last year.

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Well, fire news.

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I think this is important.

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Everyone has been trying to clean up and a lot of people have been trying to burn stuff.

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So if you're planning to do burn, an open burn, please follow all permit requirements and safety guidelines.

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Permits are only valid for the dates issued.

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Burning is allowed at the discretion of the fire marshal.

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Permit must be kept on site during the burn.

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Fire must always be intended and safely controlled.

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Only natural visitation may be burned.

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No trash, construction debris, or waste.

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Burning of leaves is not permitted.

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That's how you spread fires.

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fires must be managed in size and must not create smoke hazards proper distance from structure

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required is anywhere from 15 to 50 feet depending on the setup weather conditions must be safe no

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burning during dry conditions or winds over 15 miles an hour and then the main thing is don't

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leave your fire unattended no permits are issued anyone under 18 years old they can be revoked at

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any time only approved fuels kerosene and diesel may be used to start fires but basically you can

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log on to the website and get your fire permit and you'll be ready to rock and roll.

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Homes for sale.

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Well, we went to $228,000 this week from $206,000 last week.

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So still a $3.9 million house, but now our cheapest house that was $230,000 and one that

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was $245,000 just sold.

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So now the cheapest house is $254,000.

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So we went up $10,000 or $14,000.

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This is a condo, two bed, two full baths, and one partial bath, 1,280 square feet.

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In the sold report, we sold nine properties last week, and the most expensive was $936,000,

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and the cheapest was $100,000, making our average still $556,000.

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So that is cool.

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Town meeting updates.

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Well, there was no board zoning appeals, no planning commission, but there was a special

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meeting on April 8th, which is what delayed kind of recording the show a little bit because I wanted

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to make sure and get this covered. There was no citizen comments, but basically we had resolution

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1526, which was the task order so that emergency debris could be in monitoring service could be

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done. This ultimately passed five zero. But when we talk about the details, basically they went

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back and forth for about 30 minutes of talking about what they were going to do, how they were

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going to do it, the money, the timing, trying to go through there. I didn't want to make this

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segment an hour to cover this one hour long meeting, but John Warner, our municipal advisor,

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talked about the debt and basically this $2.75 million option that they're looking at would have

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two payments, one on June 1st, one on December 1st, and that would be $100,000 to $108,000 of

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interest per year. And we hope that we would just be holding that money for a year or two,

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depending on FEMA. And then this is when they would only pay 75% of that. And the other 25%,

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we would be responsible for 12 and a half percent could come from TEMA, but you know, this is all

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there. They went back and forth there that, you know, this company that John works for has worked

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lot with the state and they think that they can make things work. This won't affect our bond

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rating. It only affects our debt load. Nothing specific there, but it could be there. Commissioner

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Buffalini asked if there would be any closing costs. He said there wouldn't be from the bank

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side, but there would be from their side. But their goal is to obviously keep the costs low.

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So no details yet because they were just kind of basically officially allowing him to go do what

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he needed to do to collect that funds. And then they also asked if we made a big payment, like

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basically when we get our FEMA reimbursement and we transfer that immediately to this debt,

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that'll change the interest payments. And he said that would be correct as the principal went down.

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And they kind of were worried about getting into a financial situation because we didn't know the

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terms, but basically this is just to start that process. And, you know, any risk of the cost

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expanding was also brought up a couple times too. Um, and you know, we didn't want to delay

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the cleanup. We wanted to get the thing started. Um, but based on how we could do stuff, if we did

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it all at once here, we could save, you know, 25 to 30%. That's a lot of money. Um, you know,

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in this multimillion dollar cleanup process, uh, cause you know, a lot of the money is going for

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cleanup and a lot of money is going for the monitoring for the cleanup. And so they went

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back and forth there. Um, the talked about the mulch haul out and the roadside cleanup and how

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that was separate from the park. Um, and, uh, that everything has to get completed. And, um,

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so they went through there, the city council started jumping in. Uh, it wasn't our normal

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Mr. Patrick there. Um, but I guess maybe, I guess his counterpart, I don't think he even

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entered himself from the meeting. Um, but you know, they also were questions if we're going

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have to get the insurance company come and inspect to make sure it was good. And they said, no,

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there wasn't anything for that. And then, uh, resolution new business resolution 21, 26,

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that past five zero also. And this was basically saying we could use tree bunk, tree bank funds to

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start. Uh, and then we could use the loan and this capital outlay, this, but this, uh, loan

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that they're going to get next week on April 16th, hopefully. Um, and they'll vote on that. Then on

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the next board of commissioners meeting would take care of this.

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So that was good to see.

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And that one really didn't have too much discussion.

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It was pretty much just ram and speed because they knew they needed to get this out.

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So next town meeting update.

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So April 14th, we have the planning commission coming up.

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So that's this coming up week.

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And then was it an agenda posted for that?

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The board of commissioners April 16th meeting, that was to discuss the candidate A versus

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candidate B for 30 minutes each on April 16th. And then April 16th was a regular session for the

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board of commissioners. And when we look at the thing there, basically that's the department

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reports. We're going to see here from the police department, fire department, finance department,

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economic development report, which will definitely talk about the ERs and the dueling ERs.

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Resolution 1826, which is basically talking about the interim city manager and the resolution to

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appoint that. Basically, this is kind of the mock contract of the city manager, but it has blanks in

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it. So it doesn't say how much money per hour per day, what the contract is, how all that is,

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but it kind of just lays out some of that stuff there So resolution 2326 is that vote we talked about from this last week meeting which is where we were trying to get million and establishing

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the terms and the disbursement of that. So we will see what that is and how that kind of all

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plays out resolution 1926 uh this is for the board of commissioners establishing a code of conduct

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and governance guidelines for members of the board and city manager and the city attorney

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had this on the agenda and um and this is basically just i guess adding um some guidelines

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because one of them is pretty interesting members of the board shall direct operational questions

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requests and information and concerns regarding city operations to the city managers.

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Commissioners shall not directly supervise or otherwise attempt to influence staff outside of

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the authority of the city manager. So I guess it sounds like that was where commissioners were

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going directly to some of the subordinates outside of the city manager and saying, what do you think

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about this? What do you think about that? Can you do this? Can you do that? Right, I guess.

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so we said that basically all requests was one of them on point six here from the city staff

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shall be routed through the city manager when appropriate the city manager may distribute

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request to the entire board to ensure equal access to the information basically it's just

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eight points of don't go around the city manager go through the city manager that's what the whole

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point is. Resolution 2226 was the 2026 safety action plan for Williamson County. And basically,

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this is a mobility infrastructure for streets and roads. And I guess using a safety action plan to do

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that when you read all this is basically some of the board of the commissioners and supporting the

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mobility of creating safe and connected country-wide network of greenways so uh it it's

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kind of kind of interesting they have this big document is 285 pages which is uh how think of it

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it's the development code but for walkways and greenways and transportation sidewalks all the

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standards related to that. So basically it's bolting on, um, to our development code,

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adopting everything that Williamson County's safety action plan and commitment is doing.

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And we're also seeking funding for some mobility infrastructures. Um, so we'll see how that goes.

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And that's from there. And then April 30th, we've got a town hall meeting. May 4th is park and

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landscape board that was canceled last month because of all this. Um, around town coffee is

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May 13th. State of Tennessee. Well, the East Bank update. This is kind of a very interesting thing.

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So the East Nashville had a meeting on Monday night of this week. It's a redevelopment of the

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East Bank. One of the topics that was brought up was a major league baseball stadium. This plan was

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the location of the downtown next to the river next to Nissan Stadium. Ultimately, this plan has

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been pushed back. So the meeting will be April 21st to dive into this. This plan is for the stadium

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to be located on the river next to TSU, which is West Nashville, with a campus around it.

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Still no definite answer, but just wanted to share and let people know that it could happen.

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So we've been doing so much development downtown.

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I think the MLB Stadium, I don't know how that's going to work out.

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But number two there, the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development is inviting cyclists

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to experience even more of Tennessee's breathtaking scenery with 37 new curated gravel cycling routes

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in there. Launching today, the routes build up upon the existing 52 road cycling routes,

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more than a thousand miles of terrain, creating more opportunities for cyclists and outdoor

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enthusiasts to be on the two wheels there. Legislation was also the majority of Tennessee

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rivers received final approvals Thursday prohibiting the installation of landfills within

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two miles of scenic waterways, Shelbyville Republican there.

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And this was related to the Duck River and the Buffalo River.

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And the tributaries basically classifying them as class two pastoral waterways.

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Tennessee lawmakers on Tuesday, right before this meeting, lit a $100 million state disaster

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fund intended to provide disaster assistance to local governments and individuals in the

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FEMA-AIDS fall short.

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This bill's passage marks a concrete step towards bolstering the state's disaster response apparatus as the downsizing of FEMA is also happening at the same time, too.

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So this should be the thing that hopefully helps pay us back.

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But if we, our little town, is spending almost $3 million to do this, I do not.

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I think that $100 million is going to be done in one sneeze in Nashville.

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And so whoever applies for this money first, and depending on who it goes through and budget appropriation process, I hope we see some of this because this should be our 12.5% reimbursement.

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But I guess this could also be intended to be the 75% of that.

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So that could be the total 87.5% between there.

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We'll have to see.

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The bills, well, nothing.

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I guess they have reached their quota

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There's nothing on the agenda for the whole next week

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And we will see what they keep getting into

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How's the hill?

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Well, it's definitely passable, back to normal

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It's been hot and then chilly

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But I think we're kind of in hot now

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And it's going to be like that from now on, I think

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This week the weather guessers are predicting highs from 80 to 87

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and lows are only going from 63 to 66 with rain forecasted next Thursday.

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New businesses.

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Well, nothing new is spotted.

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Jingo Java still moved over to Uncle Lenny's.

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Vigilance is still at Publix.

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Ace Hardware is getting a lot closer.

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They're hiring now, posting a lot of stuff.

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There's still a couple of properties around the area.

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There are three commercial properties for sale,

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one on Dragstrip Road, Loblolly Boulevard,

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and one besides Citco and Highway 96 there at I-40.

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And then for lease, there are 1707, 2305, and 2332 Fairview Boulevard.

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Related to businesses, you've got the farmer's market every weekend on Saturday morning, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Messick Chiropractic and Fairview Fresh Deli Donuts located across the road from Fair Publics.

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There are so many good places to get breads, treats, local beef, pork, fruits, vegetables, along with some hot sauce, fishing lures, and other gifts.

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on the fruits and vegetables. That's always kind of seasonal. So you're going to start seeing stuff

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starting to come back right now. Brick and mortar highlight, the Pearl. The Pearl is our,

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one of our assisted living community members and memory care communities. It's a home.

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It's unique process of approach to aging ensures residents receive personalized care,

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attention they deserve. Our local Fairview, Tennessee provides access to vibrant natural

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scene, which fully embraced the live performances and local talents, a family owned and operated

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community.

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We treat each 10 member and resident like family, creating a warm and welcoming environment

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where dignity, independence, and choice are at the forefront of everything we do.

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The owners of the Pearl are some amazing people that do a lot in the community.

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I know they've also done a lot with scouts and there's been some Eagle Scout projects

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and stuff in there.

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So it's really good to see them.

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And so if you've got a loved one that needs a place to go and wants them to be safe and close, this is your spot.

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Job openings.

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Well, we went from 48 to 48.

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Basically, everything's the same.

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So the new stuff from last week is still there.

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The Ace Hardware, the Team Manager, Store Manager, some of the leads are there.

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Um, and then basically just like we've always talked about pretty much every, um, every single

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business, especially service, Walmart's, every restaurant pretty much has openings.

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Uh, the unity chiropractic has an opening for their Sonic AMS seals, Marmon holdings,

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tractors, black coat, S P E G U S I C destination, pet LLC star physical therapy, Turner's landscaping.

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so if you have any other ones just job postings that we don't see from indeed then just share

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them this way we can have them read weekly and just fill out the form on the website we'll get

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it cooking history nugget well we're still going to continue on this this is the fairview observer

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from 1998 and kind of sprinkle in a couple of these so we made it to page one last week and

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Now we're on page two.

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Page two this week has a map of the county with no 840.

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And they mentioned Highway 196 and how close we are to I-40 and be able to get there.

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They also had travel times to Nashville, to Franklin, to all those other areas.

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So that's kind of cool.

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And then it talked, there was an ad from Ryan's home for the Meadows at Fairview.

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And they said it was built on Peck Road, which doesn't seem to exist anymore.

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So I'm not sure where they are.

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when I tried to run a filter for looking for things that were being built around 1996 to 2000.

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I couldn't find some townhomes that way. But these are two to three level townhouses with three

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bedrooms. And they even came with nine foot ceilings was called out one car garages and

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they had brick fronts are available if you wanted brick fronts. And back then they were $95,000.

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And now they are just $250,000.

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So there is the Meadows at Fairview on there, but that is a whole different thing.

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But I think what's funny for this page, too, is those travel times.

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So Fairview City to Franklin, 20 minutes.

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Williamson Square, 23 minutes.

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Cool Springs, 30 minutes.

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Still basically the same.

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Bellevue, 17 minutes.

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And Dixon, 20 minutes.

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so those are all still pretty up there upcoming events recap nothing too uh major uh that i've

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seen obviously we were in full spring sports mode so there's lots of stuff going on there

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the calendar on our website is completely cramped packed so check that out buoy park is still closed

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on saturday april 11th there will be a patriotic flag retirement ceremony at the veterans memorial

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park and that is done by cub spec cub scout pack 309 and the american legion post 248 there's also

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another skate night coming to the fairview recreation and this is the joust and jam skate

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night and so that will be april 18th on saturday 5 to 7 30 this includes popcorn popcorn bar and

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lemonade and you must bring your own skates so this is the there but i think you can rent skates

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but obviously they'll run out too.

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April 28th is still the Fairview Titans Junior Pro First Annual Golf Scramble.

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And Bowie Park updated all their schedules and moved everything officially in April over

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and talked more about the park news and the master plan and all the things that are going on there.

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They still have marks.

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They have said what they're going to do in May because the Arts and Crafts Fair is supposed to be in Bowie Park May 2nd.

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And I'm hoping it may get done by the hair of its chinny chin chin, which will be great.

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Other than that, it's voting season.

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So if you've seen more and more election-related signs, that's because early voting starts on April 15th this week coming up.

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And that is the county primary.

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So be ready for that.

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And then in July, we have another early voting.

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And in October, we have another early voting with votes on May 5th, August 6th, and November 3rd, accordingly for each level of election that's kind of going through there.

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For the kids, well, there's still tons of activities to do here in Fairview to keep your kids engaged.

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There are cheer programs, recreation teams for baseball, basketball, softball, football, and others.

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There's also a Thriving Girl Scout and Scouting America program here in Fairview.

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If you have a homeschooler, always check out the Bowie Park schedule for the clubs that meet there.

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If you have kids that are interested in dance and gymnastics or cheer,

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please check out Lala's Dance Studio and Elevate Gymnastics and Cheer.

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Vigilance Martial Arts is our local taekwondo and jiu-jitsu school that teaches way more than just moves.

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The Fairview Youth Jacket Wrestling Program has produced a lot of state champions and scholarship recipients.

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And they offer a lot of school cool summer programs for summer care options.

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The Yay Theater Camp is still happening.

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Sign up.

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This is for K through 8th graders.

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June 15th is the sign up for the registrations.

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$250.

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This is July 6th through 10th.

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And this is at Independence High School, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.

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We've talked about this a couple times now.

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The Sports Physical is coming April 18th.

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And this is the Bone and Joint Institute.

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We'll be there 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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You can register for that.

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School news.

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Well, everything right now is in testing mode and waiting for May 21st.

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Hawk and Tiger news.

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No real new news since last week.

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Falcon news.

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The newsletter was on time.

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The McTeacher night at McDonald's looked like it went great.

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the FMS awards are coming up and your student should be you should already be notified by now

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but May 20th will be the class of 2030s promotion thanks to everyone that helped with the Grace

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Works promotion that we talked about the food drive and donation pizza party for the winners

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are Miss Coke and Hudlow's Community Time which had an impressive 161 items donated

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it looked like the House of Honor had 102 House of Valor 139 and House of Armor had 214

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There is a cool fun little promo promotion April 8th through 16th.

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If you purchase tattoos during lunch you can get some tattoos on some of the school staff It for four small tattoos two for two mediums and for large tattoos

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So that's really fun to see.

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And a lot of the teachers and staff have volunteered themselves to get inked up.

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So that should be pretty funny.

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We'll look forward to see the pictures from there.

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The play auditions for Charlotte's Web wrapped up this week.

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That was April 9th through at Lefford.

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So make sure you're there.

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and then there was a track meet at Ravenwood

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and then I think there was also a track meet at Independence.

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Yeah, it was a track meet at Independence when I'm looking at the schedule here.

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And so hopefully everyone ran like the wind and got some good personal bests and all that.

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We're excited to also host the Fairview Family Night and Student Mixer

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and more students and families are invited to join.

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Students have a chance to hang out, enjoy games and activities and Akona Ice will be there.

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The next one is April 13th, 530 to 630.

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And then they also posted all their TCAP stuff, which really a lot of stuff like that is starting April 21st is when that's going to get hot and heavy.

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Summer orchestra cramp is coming June 22nd through 26th.

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And that's all open to all 7th through 9th graders.

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And registration closes the day after the last day of school.

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Jacket News.

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The net newsletter came in, but some of the updates were kind of all about the finals and the end of the month and going to the end of the year.

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April 25th is the NHS walk-a-thon from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. basically.

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And then also all sports are rocking and rolling right now with track season and softball and baseball and soccer.

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It's been very busy.

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The tennis team has got a little bit more for wrapping up their season on the 15th with some championship stuff starting them.

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The prom is April 18th and tickets are going and that's a masquerade theme.

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The FFA is also having its plant sale this coming up week, April 14th through 17th and 21st through 24th.

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And they basically have hanging plants from $20, flat plants with 32 of them for $25, four packs, two packs, potted varieties for $10 to $12.

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And there are all kinds of stuff to go there.

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and then April 23rd is Jazz Night and Trivia Night at Kano's.

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So we'll see there and that will be some of the stuff there.

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We'll go to the proceeds of that night.

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We'll go to the band, which is good.

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April 17th is when they're going to get high school wrestling for the girls going.

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So if they want to join in any rest just there,

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still see the Fairview High School PTO still seeking volunteers.

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And so that's still rolling where they need a president,

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Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer.

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And March 25th was that meeting, but it's still in the notes for this last one.

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So I guess stuff's still going on.

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If you're looking for yearbooks, that ship is sailed, but senior rings and jackets are for sale.

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And there's also some stuff for sale right now when it comes to jacket material, like shirts and stuff like that.

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And it's on sale.

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Faith moment.

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Well, with this week, I had to do something special with Easter and Resurrection Day, which many of us call it the Christian faith now is Resurrection Day.

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to highlight what happened that day.

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And, you know, we know what happens.

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This one comes from our very own One Church Home from Pastor Ian Gilchrist.

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This is a big day for him in this testimony

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because this is his 18-year anniversary of being saved

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and accepting on Easter Sunday back then.

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And this is called, just as you said, it is finished.

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And I hope you like this one.

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A couple people learned a little bit from it,

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And it happened right after the grave and found open.

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And here we go.

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What a special and profoundly world-changing day, a sacred day we celebrate and commemorate

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today in Resurrection Sunday.

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And I just, I don't think I can fully grasp, we can fully grasp the impact of Sunday without

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quickly being reminded of what happened on Friday.

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We gathered in this place Friday night and remembered the cross.

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We remembered the things Jesus spoke on the cross.

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Offering salvation to the guy who was being crucified beside him.

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When he was being mocked, Jesus, this man on the cross

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looked to the other man that was being crucified.

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There were three of them.

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And he said, we deserve to be here.

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But he's different.

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and he looked at Jesus and he said,

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today, remember me when you enter into your kingdom.

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That man didn't ever go to church.

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He never went to Bible study.

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He never served on a volunteer team.

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His kids didn't even go to VBS.

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and yet he had faith that Jesus is who he said he was and therefore Jesus looked at him and said

423
00:32:53,148 --> 00:32:58,688
today you will be with me in paradise

424
00:32:58,688 --> 00:33:03,788
Jesus even in the midst of agony

425
00:33:03,788 --> 00:33:05,848
pain is unbearable

426
00:33:05,848 --> 00:33:06,828
and unthinkable

427
00:33:06,828 --> 00:33:09,088
catastrophic

428
00:33:09,088 --> 00:33:12,048
stress and anxiety

429
00:33:12,048 --> 00:33:14,108
offers salvation

430
00:33:14,108 --> 00:33:15,668
to one who says

431
00:33:15,668 --> 00:33:17,348
you are who you say you are

432
00:33:17,348 --> 00:33:19,788
I'm not perfect I don't have it all

433
00:33:19,788 --> 00:33:22,028
figured out but you are

434
00:33:22,028 --> 00:33:23,368
who you say you are

435
00:33:23,368 --> 00:33:24,968
and that's all it took

436
00:33:24,968 --> 00:33:28,008
I love Alistair Begg's example

437
00:33:28,008 --> 00:33:35,308
of this. He gives this story, this way to think about it. And we have such a religious pretense

438
00:33:35,308 --> 00:33:39,868
in our life that causes us to, you know, well, we've grown up in church and so we deserve to be

439
00:33:39,868 --> 00:33:45,808
here. And it creates this odd entitlement of if I've done the right thing, I get into heaven. And

440
00:33:45,808 --> 00:33:53,468
this man gets to heaven. And everybody's looking at him sideways. And somebody comes up and they

441
00:33:53,468 --> 00:33:59,088
said, how are you here? What gives you the right to be here? And he looked at him and he said,

442
00:33:59,168 --> 00:34:05,368
I don't know, but the man on the middle cross told me I could come.

443
00:34:07,808 --> 00:34:14,368
The man on the middle cross told me I could come. It's the only thing I have to cling to.

444
00:34:14,368 --> 00:34:20,028
And I'm just telling us today one more time, I don't care how good you've been, how bad you've

445
00:34:20,028 --> 00:34:25,408
been, how far you've been, how close you've been. The only hope we have is the man on the middle

446
00:34:25,408 --> 00:34:34,988
cross making a way for us to come home. And as he declared salvation to that man, he offered

447
00:34:34,988 --> 00:34:41,348
forgiveness to those who hurt him and put him in the place that he was. Father, forgive them for

448
00:34:41,348 --> 00:34:48,368
they know not what they do. He proceeds to just walk through these statements, every breath, agony,

449
00:34:48,368 --> 00:34:54,328
pain and still willfully choosing to speak on this cross.

450
00:34:56,288 --> 00:35:03,668
And it crescendos in perhaps the most theologically rich statement ever spoken,

451
00:35:04,008 --> 00:35:11,028
the most biblically significant, like the most mind-boggling words that could come out of the

452
00:35:11,028 --> 00:35:16,668
mouth of God incarnate being crucified for those he came to save. He cries out a prophetic

453
00:35:16,668 --> 00:35:29,788
declaration as he hangs on that cross. It is finished. And perhaps you would hear that

454
00:35:29,788 --> 00:35:37,968
and think he's saying it's about his life or his ministry or the things he was physically doing.

455
00:35:37,968 --> 00:35:44,228
But what we know to be true because we have his word, that it is finished is a declaration

456
00:35:44,228 --> 00:35:46,568
that didn't start on a cross.

457
00:35:46,748 --> 00:35:48,108
It started in a garden.

458
00:35:49,328 --> 00:35:51,648
When sin entered the world

459
00:35:51,648 --> 00:35:53,708
through the fall of Adam and Eve,

460
00:35:55,508 --> 00:35:56,408
and you could go,

461
00:35:56,408 --> 00:35:58,848
well, I wouldn't have done it.

462
00:35:59,688 --> 00:36:01,528
Sure you would have.

463
00:36:02,788 --> 00:36:04,608
I wouldn't have eaten that fruit.

464
00:36:05,548 --> 00:36:06,828
It was her fault.

465
00:36:07,668 --> 00:36:09,408
We've been saying that for years.

466
00:36:12,068 --> 00:36:13,728
They eat of the fruit.

467
00:36:14,228 --> 00:36:17,308
Sin rushes into humanity.

468
00:36:17,748 --> 00:36:24,668
And then all of a sudden this curse of sin plagues everyone that will ever come from the seed of a woman.

469
00:36:26,288 --> 00:36:31,008
Sin becomes the fallen nature that we get hung up with.

470
00:36:31,968 --> 00:36:35,768
If you don't know that to be true, some people go, no, I was born good, man.

471
00:36:35,828 --> 00:36:37,188
And it was just, I made bad choices.

472
00:36:37,968 --> 00:36:39,988
You know how I know sin is real?

473
00:36:40,728 --> 00:36:42,348
And it's just naturally in us?

474
00:36:42,408 --> 00:36:43,148
I had kids.

475
00:36:44,228 --> 00:36:50,748
my twins were just so sweet and small,

476
00:36:51,648 --> 00:36:58,428
precious little boys, gentle, soft-spoken.

477
00:36:59,288 --> 00:37:00,748
Then they started walking.

478
00:37:03,528 --> 00:37:04,768
And something happened.

479
00:37:05,408 --> 00:37:07,248
I watched with my own eyes.

480
00:37:08,028 --> 00:37:09,628
Nobody taught them to be greedy.

481
00:37:10,888 --> 00:37:12,548
Nobody taught them to be aggressive.

482
00:37:12,548 --> 00:37:13,468
Nobody taught them.

483
00:37:13,608 --> 00:37:17,248
Like in my house, I don't walk around and like punch people to get breakfast.

484
00:37:21,228 --> 00:37:24,408
But I'll never forget, you know, they pick up a toy and for the first time, you're like,

485
00:37:24,488 --> 00:37:25,968
look, they're going to play together, honey.

486
00:37:26,128 --> 00:37:31,368
And then the other one just socks the first one, you know, takes it from them.

487
00:37:31,828 --> 00:37:32,988
That's my toy.

488
00:37:35,328 --> 00:37:37,408
You're just like, what is wrong with you?

489
00:37:37,488 --> 00:37:38,768
Like, this is crazy.

490
00:37:39,768 --> 00:37:41,968
And it's just a human condition, right?

491
00:37:41,968 --> 00:37:43,608
Like, take what you want.

492
00:37:43,848 --> 00:37:45,868
Like, that is a byproduct.

493
00:37:46,008 --> 00:37:56,868
It's a remnant of sin entering the world, needing a reorientation, a repentance back to the way we were designed with peace and fill in the blank.

494
00:37:57,108 --> 00:38:02,808
So sin enters the world, and God declares a promise in the garden.

495
00:38:02,808 --> 00:38:14,848
He says, I will send a seed that will come through the woman and he will crush the serpent's head and the serpent will bruise his heel.

496
00:38:15,588 --> 00:38:27,628
So the prophetic declaration on the cross, it is finished, is the whole story of God starting with the lineage of Israel,

497
00:38:27,628 --> 00:38:32,748
then clarifying it through Judah, then in the line of David, in the bloodline of David.

498
00:38:32,808 --> 00:38:38,928
the seed would come. He continued to promise and promise and promise. He told us what he would be

499
00:38:38,928 --> 00:38:44,448
like, that he'd be fully man and fully God, that the government would be upon his shoulders, that

500
00:38:44,448 --> 00:38:50,588
he would be wounded for our transgressions. There are so many things that converge on this person

501
00:38:50,588 --> 00:38:57,868
of Jesus being the fulfillment of God's promise, declaring that it is over.

502
00:38:57,868 --> 00:39:01,168
so the cross

503
00:39:01,168 --> 00:39:04,268
is something we look back to

504
00:39:04,268 --> 00:39:07,648
recognizing that the penalty

505
00:39:07,648 --> 00:39:10,248
and payment for our sin

506
00:39:10,248 --> 00:39:12,008
wasn't upon ourself

507
00:39:12,008 --> 00:39:13,568
wasn't upon our piety

508
00:39:13,568 --> 00:39:14,308
or our goodness

509
00:39:14,308 --> 00:39:16,208
or our religiosity

510
00:39:16,208 --> 00:39:17,988
it was fully paid

511
00:39:17,988 --> 00:39:20,748
only through the blood of the lamb

512
00:39:20,748 --> 00:39:23,608
and Jesus cried out at his finish

513
00:39:23,608 --> 00:39:25,908
meaning paid in full

514
00:39:25,908 --> 00:39:30,068
which then leads us to this morning

515
00:39:30,068 --> 00:39:33,528
the resurrection of Jesus

516
00:39:33,528 --> 00:39:37,028
he declared it was finished on Friday

517
00:39:37,028 --> 00:39:41,128
and he stamped it on Sunday

518
00:39:41,128 --> 00:39:43,548
because Sunday

519
00:39:43,548 --> 00:39:47,788
then therefore becomes a day of invitation

520
00:39:47,788 --> 00:39:51,508
when he comes out of that grave

521
00:39:51,508 --> 00:39:54,948
every aspect and facet of this story

522
00:39:54,948 --> 00:39:58,208
when we read it through the full context of scripture,

523
00:39:58,388 --> 00:40:01,548
we start to see this beckoning and calling,

524
00:40:02,248 --> 00:40:07,028
this invitation from God to come and receive it.

525
00:40:07,488 --> 00:40:10,448
Somewhere along the way we got so Christian

526
00:40:10,448 --> 00:40:12,628
that we messed up all this stuff.

527
00:40:13,388 --> 00:40:18,288
We got so religious that we forgot Jesus paid it all.

528
00:40:19,548 --> 00:40:24,028
And now he's inviting me to find the life

529
00:40:24,028 --> 00:40:26,268
I've always been looking for.

530
00:40:27,268 --> 00:40:29,808
I mean, listen, people have been singing songs.

531
00:40:29,888 --> 00:40:31,468
I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

532
00:40:31,808 --> 00:40:32,888
We have.

533
00:40:33,808 --> 00:40:35,228
We know the truth.

534
00:40:35,388 --> 00:40:36,388
Bono's a lion.

535
00:40:38,448 --> 00:40:40,328
That'll get me cut off on Facebook.

536
00:40:44,068 --> 00:40:47,788
We have found what we're looking for.

537
00:40:47,928 --> 00:40:50,308
And that's the invitation of the resurrection.

538
00:40:50,308 --> 00:40:54,428
that's the call that he makes to people

539
00:40:54,428 --> 00:40:57,108
I'm not asking you to come follow me

540
00:40:57,108 --> 00:40:58,528
so you can be super religious

541
00:40:58,528 --> 00:40:59,868
and earn your way to me

542
00:40:59,868 --> 00:41:01,768
I'm asking you to come follow me

543
00:41:01,768 --> 00:41:04,168
because I've paid in full

544
00:41:04,168 --> 00:41:05,988
that you might not have to

545
00:41:05,988 --> 00:41:10,728
there is an incredible invitation

546
00:41:10,728 --> 00:41:13,028
that comes in the resurrection

547
00:41:13,028 --> 00:41:15,908
we couldn't ever

548
00:41:15,908 --> 00:41:18,548
we never had the ability to pay the debt required

549
00:41:18,548 --> 00:41:21,848
Christ fulfilled that in his death

550
00:41:21,848 --> 00:41:28,028
and now he gives us a choice to make

551
00:41:28,028 --> 00:41:29,488
an invitation

552
00:41:29,488 --> 00:41:47,032
just like the one that had been made all those years ago in the garden do you want to do it my way or do it yours And I just saying 18 years ago today on Easter Sunday on Resurrection Sunday I finally said to Jesus I want to do it your way

553
00:41:47,032 --> 00:41:51,312
and not my way. And my life changed forever.

554
00:41:51,312 --> 00:42:05,392
when we stand before a righteous and holy judge will stand will we stand in the arrogance of

555
00:42:05,392 --> 00:42:14,032
our own ways or will we plead the blood of his only begotten son today we get to decide

556
00:42:14,032 --> 00:42:21,832
and so as we look at this resurrection story I want to show you how every facet of this

557
00:42:21,832 --> 00:42:30,032
resurrection is an invitation for you to come home the thing I want to give us warning for though is

558
00:42:30,032 --> 00:42:36,592
sometimes we've been around church we've heard a sermon we've read the bible study we've done

559
00:42:36,592 --> 00:42:43,692
we've been around it so much that we we can't really hear it clearly my prayer for today is

560
00:42:43,692 --> 00:42:52,832
that we would have ears to hear what God is saying because it's possible to hear him and not hear him.

561
00:42:53,532 --> 00:43:01,392
We understand them? The reason I know this is because everyone was shocked when Jesus went in

562
00:43:01,392 --> 00:43:07,852
the tomb and the stone rolled over. The disciples went and hid. Some of them went back to the fishing

563
00:43:07,852 --> 00:43:16,012
boats. People were scattered and afraid, terrified. We know that some of them are walking down. And

564
00:43:16,012 --> 00:43:24,792
even after Jesus rises, like they, none of them were going, oh my gosh, this is that. He's going

565
00:43:24,792 --> 00:43:31,072
to come out of the grave in three days, just like he told us he would, because he told them he would.

566
00:43:31,072 --> 00:43:38,232
many different times Jesus foretold that he would go away and come back in detail. Listen,

567
00:43:38,232 --> 00:43:45,212
Matthew 12, 39 and 40. It says, but he answered to them and said, an evil and adulterous generation

568
00:43:45,212 --> 00:43:51,552
seeks after a sign, but no one will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

569
00:43:52,052 --> 00:43:57,052
Interesting. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish,

570
00:43:57,052 --> 00:44:02,772
so will the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth

571
00:44:02,772 --> 00:44:10,512
jesus told them i'm going to get buried in the earth it's not a camping trip

572
00:44:10,512 --> 00:44:17,512
he told him this was going to happen yet no one was standing outside on the third day going

573
00:44:17,512 --> 00:44:18,872
all right jesus

574
00:44:18,872 --> 00:44:22,672
72 hours let's go

575
00:44:22,672 --> 00:44:25,852
they just forgot

576
00:44:25,852 --> 00:44:27,712
that he told them

577
00:44:27,712 --> 00:44:29,432
that this was going to happen

578
00:44:29,432 --> 00:44:31,532
they allowed the fear

579
00:44:31,532 --> 00:44:32,712
they allowed the doubt

580
00:44:32,712 --> 00:44:36,132
they allowed the physical reality of the situation

581
00:44:36,132 --> 00:44:38,032
to cause them to be blind

582
00:44:38,032 --> 00:44:40,092
to what's spiritually going on

583
00:44:40,092 --> 00:44:41,752
and I just want to say today

584
00:44:41,752 --> 00:44:43,212
as we look at this story

585
00:44:43,212 --> 00:44:45,332
don't be blinded

586
00:44:45,332 --> 00:44:54,092
don't let the context or the fear or the worry or the what's they what are they going to think

587
00:44:54,092 --> 00:45:01,132
or this or that don't let that cause you to to miss this jesus is inviting us to come home

588
00:45:01,132 --> 00:45:06,932
and if that's true and he really did fulfill that promise from a garden to a cross

589
00:45:06,932 --> 00:45:10,692
then nothing else matters like saying yes to jesus

590
00:45:10,692 --> 00:45:25,552
and I want you to see the just the intimate and unique ways that that the resurrection story is

591
00:45:25,552 --> 00:45:32,612
an invitation it starts in John 20 verses 1 through 8 it says now on the first day of the

592
00:45:32,612 --> 00:45:39,192
week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early while it was still dark they estimate around 5 30 in the

593
00:45:39,192 --> 00:45:45,912
morning and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. Now here, listen, pause.

594
00:45:46,812 --> 00:45:53,232
The reason I know that she wasn't going to the tomb because she was thinking about the Jonah thing

595
00:45:53,232 --> 00:46:00,172
is because what happens next? Then she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciples

596
00:46:00,172 --> 00:46:05,612
whom Jesus loved. You got to love John, you know, throwing that in there. That's, he's talking about

597
00:46:05,612 --> 00:46:13,052
himself in the third person and said to them, listen, they have taken away the Lord out of the

598
00:46:13,052 --> 00:46:21,032
tomb. Right there. She didn't think this was Jesus doing his thing. She thought someone had stole

599
00:46:21,032 --> 00:46:29,652
Jesus. She applied a natural response to a supernatural act. Let it not be said of us today.

600
00:46:29,652 --> 00:46:33,612
Peter therefore went out

601
00:46:33,612 --> 00:46:34,892
and the other disciple

602
00:46:34,892 --> 00:46:36,232
talking about himself again

603
00:46:36,232 --> 00:46:36,952
you gotta love John

604
00:46:36,952 --> 00:46:39,552
and we're going to the tomb

605
00:46:39,552 --> 00:46:41,092
so they both ran together

606
00:46:41,092 --> 00:46:41,992
listen to John

607
00:46:41,992 --> 00:46:43,292
he's just a guy's guy

608
00:46:43,292 --> 00:46:45,272
and the other disciple himself

609
00:46:45,272 --> 00:46:46,172
outran Peter

610
00:46:46,172 --> 00:46:53,272
God let him put that in the Bible

611
00:46:53,272 --> 00:46:59,472
and Peter came to the tomb first

612
00:46:59,472 --> 00:47:02,672
I'm sorry, outran Peter and he got to the tomb first.

613
00:47:03,392 --> 00:47:06,672
And he, John, stooping down, looking in,

614
00:47:07,792 --> 00:47:10,992
saw the linen cloths were lying there, yet he did not go in.

615
00:47:11,772 --> 00:47:15,252
Then Simon Peter came following him and went into the tomb

616
00:47:15,252 --> 00:47:17,192
and saw the linen cloths lying there

617
00:47:17,192 --> 00:47:19,512
and the handkerchief that had been around his head,

618
00:47:19,832 --> 00:47:21,152
not lying with the linen cloths,

619
00:47:21,172 --> 00:47:23,612
but folded together in a place by itself.

620
00:47:23,752 --> 00:47:26,772
Then the other disciple who came to the tomb first

621
00:47:26,772 --> 00:47:41,972
went in also, and he saw and believed. Mary shows up to the tomb expecting to manage death.

622
00:47:43,532 --> 00:47:51,372
We know from Jewish history, we know from Jewish tradition that the burial process took a long time.

623
00:47:51,372 --> 00:47:53,692
It was a drawn out experience.

624
00:47:54,092 --> 00:47:57,112
It wasn't something that they just threw him in and dropped him.

625
00:47:57,312 --> 00:47:58,712
They had to wrap him.

626
00:47:59,172 --> 00:48:03,032
They took very serious care over even the blood that was spilled.

627
00:48:03,412 --> 00:48:06,032
They had to clean him, ceremonially cleanse him, all that.

628
00:48:06,292 --> 00:48:08,832
But they had about three hours to get this done.

629
00:48:09,152 --> 00:48:10,972
He died somewhere around three o'clock.

630
00:48:11,252 --> 00:48:12,412
The veil was torn.

631
00:48:12,712 --> 00:48:16,032
The earthquake, the dead walked, and Jesus died.

632
00:48:16,292 --> 00:48:20,292
There was about three hours before sundown, which on Shabbat would have meant,

633
00:48:20,292 --> 00:48:24,252
hey, you're done. You can't do any more work. So they had three hours to get him buried.

634
00:48:24,632 --> 00:48:30,232
Joseph of Arimathea offers up his tomb, offers him a cloth, a linen cloth. There's so many great

635
00:48:30,232 --> 00:48:36,572
things we could talk about there, but they quickly bury him and they roll a 2,500 pound rock

636
00:48:36,572 --> 00:48:43,992
across the door. Mary was coming to the tomb that morning, early in the morning,

637
00:48:43,992 --> 00:48:47,252
to honor the one she loved,

638
00:48:48,192 --> 00:48:50,572
to ceremonially cleanse him.

639
00:48:50,732 --> 00:48:52,192
Now that Shabbat had passed,

640
00:48:52,372 --> 00:48:54,152
as soon as she legally could,

641
00:48:54,392 --> 00:48:55,752
she was coming back to the tomb

642
00:48:55,752 --> 00:48:57,892
to anoint his body,

643
00:48:58,152 --> 00:48:58,992
to do all the things

644
00:48:58,992 --> 00:49:00,312
they didn't have time to do Friday.

645
00:49:00,612 --> 00:49:05,052
And she saw a tomb door rolled away.

646
00:49:07,212 --> 00:49:09,252
And I love the depiction of people.

647
00:49:09,712 --> 00:49:11,352
You know, we paint these pictures.

648
00:49:11,452 --> 00:49:12,112
He is risen.

649
00:49:12,112 --> 00:49:14,132
and it's like Jesus walking out of the tomb.

650
00:49:15,192 --> 00:49:17,412
The doors rolled, big door, all that.

651
00:49:17,852 --> 00:49:19,552
And listen, he might have walked out.

652
00:49:19,552 --> 00:49:23,772
I'm just saying here in a few verses,

653
00:49:23,772 --> 00:49:26,492
he's gonna walk through walls.

654
00:49:28,492 --> 00:49:31,452
He's gonna step right through locked doors.

655
00:49:33,092 --> 00:49:35,932
So why was the tomb door open?

656
00:49:37,392 --> 00:49:40,272
Was it like he can't walk through the density of stone?

657
00:49:42,112 --> 00:49:48,252
You see, I don't believe Jesus rolled the stone away so that he could get out.

658
00:49:49,152 --> 00:49:53,132
I believe he rolled that stone away so that we could come in.

659
00:49:57,672 --> 00:50:04,132
I believe the stone was removed so that we could come in and see, and then therefore what?

660
00:50:04,792 --> 00:50:05,352
Belief.

661
00:50:05,352 --> 00:50:05,412
Belief.

662
00:50:05,412 --> 00:50:09,712
let that evidence

663
00:50:09,712 --> 00:50:10,932
let that truth

664
00:50:10,932 --> 00:50:13,132
well end up in us

665
00:50:13,132 --> 00:50:14,672
and go oh my god

666
00:50:14,672 --> 00:50:16,052
he isn't here

667
00:50:16,052 --> 00:50:19,352
Jesus had no need of tossing

668
00:50:19,352 --> 00:50:20,392
stones around

669
00:50:20,392 --> 00:50:23,392
he could have just busted right through the thing

670
00:50:23,392 --> 00:50:25,072
but instead

671
00:50:25,072 --> 00:50:27,372
he opens the door to let them

672
00:50:27,372 --> 00:50:29,092
come in and today

673
00:50:29,092 --> 00:50:30,972
beloved he's inviting you

674
00:50:30,972 --> 00:50:32,832
to come in

675
00:50:32,832 --> 00:50:47,332
and then something profound personal intimate happens sometimes when i hear and i talk about

676
00:50:47,332 --> 00:50:52,852
jesus when i hear people talking about jesus i find that it feels so broad it's like it's

677
00:50:52,852 --> 00:50:56,732
definitely for the guy on my left i'm not sure if it's for the guy on my right but it's like

678
00:50:56,732 --> 00:51:05,932
it's for them. But Jesus has this personalizing that happens in the story of the resurrection.

679
00:51:06,692 --> 00:51:14,092
Where Mary came, she's afraid, she's upset, she's distorted, she's disenfranchised, she's,

680
00:51:14,092 --> 00:51:20,052
I mean, I came to do this. He's gone. She's convinced somebody stole him. She runs back and

681
00:51:20,052 --> 00:51:25,752
tells Peter and them, somebody's got him. I'm just sure of it. Somebody took him. And then this

682
00:51:25,752 --> 00:51:32,852
amazing little exchange happens in verses 14 through 16. Now, when she said this, she turned

683
00:51:32,852 --> 00:51:42,572
around and saw Jesus standing there. What a moment this is going to be. But she didn't know it was

684
00:51:42,572 --> 00:51:49,392
Jesus. Jesus said to her, woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?

685
00:51:49,392 --> 00:51:56,312
you just have to love that this is recorded for all of human history

686
00:51:56,312 --> 00:52:00,332
she's supposing him to be a gardener

687
00:52:00,332 --> 00:52:08,972
she can't ever live that down aren't you glad your mistakes aren't recorded for all of history

688
00:52:08,972 --> 00:52:18,352
what a beautiful part of this story though she responds to him sir hear the desperation in her

689
00:52:18,352 --> 00:52:25,552
voice, to the longing to just do right by her beloved. Sir, if you've carried him away, tell me

690
00:52:25,552 --> 00:52:30,512
where you've laid him, and I will take him. You don't have to do this anymore. You don't have to

691
00:52:30,512 --> 00:52:41,652
take, let me, let me do right by him. Let me honor him in his death. And Jesus said to her, Mary.

692
00:52:41,652 --> 00:52:47,612
and the lights came on

693
00:52:47,612 --> 00:52:50,492
she turned and said to him

694
00:52:50,492 --> 00:52:51,792
Rabboni

695
00:52:51,792 --> 00:52:54,012
which is to say teacher

696
00:52:54,012 --> 00:52:56,732
and then she ends up running to him and clinging to him

697
00:52:56,732 --> 00:52:58,212
and he's like easy, easy, easy, whoa, whoa, whoa

698
00:52:58,212 --> 00:53:03,392
but I just love the intimacy of the invitation

699
00:53:03,392 --> 00:53:06,672
it goes from opening a door to letting us in

700
00:53:06,672 --> 00:53:11,492
to then Jesus speaking her intimate name

701
00:53:11,492 --> 00:53:15,572
and it was through the hearing of her name

702
00:53:15,572 --> 00:53:18,212
that she saw him clearly.

703
00:53:19,212 --> 00:53:22,232
We can get so caught up in just doing and being

704
00:53:22,232 --> 00:53:25,132
and operating in life

705
00:53:25,132 --> 00:53:27,692
that sometimes you just need to be reminded

706
00:53:27,692 --> 00:53:30,752
that Jesus knows your name.

707
00:53:30,852 --> 00:53:32,612
He knows the hair on your head.

708
00:53:32,892 --> 00:53:34,552
He has thoughts towards you

709
00:53:34,552 --> 00:53:37,412
that are more than the sands of a seashore.

710
00:53:38,412 --> 00:53:39,852
Can you even imagine?

711
00:53:40,332 --> 00:53:41,312
All right, well, welcome back.

712
00:53:41,492 --> 00:53:43,852
Um, hopefully that was cool.

713
00:53:44,012 --> 00:53:46,252
Uh, I had to slice and dice it.

714
00:53:46,312 --> 00:53:47,272
Couldn't do the whole thing.

715
00:53:47,332 --> 00:53:50,192
Uh, definitely be one of the keep learning more about it.

716
00:53:50,272 --> 00:53:51,072
Definitely check it out.

717
00:53:51,172 --> 00:53:52,472
We've got the link in the show notes.

718
00:53:52,972 --> 00:53:57,612
Um, but then also, uh, I wanted to do something special here because he had mentioned this

719
00:53:57,612 --> 00:54:01,252
during the sermon, um, which is the man on the middle cross.

720
00:54:01,512 --> 00:54:05,132
And this is Alistar Begg, uh, a little sermon clip from there.

721
00:54:05,132 --> 00:54:08,412
So take a listen and, uh, we'll be back in just a second.

722
00:54:08,412 --> 00:54:15,112
Without the preaching of the cross, without preaching the cross to ourselves all day and

723
00:54:15,112 --> 00:54:25,072
every day, we will very, very quickly revert to faith plus works as the ground of our salvation.

724
00:54:26,832 --> 00:54:33,312
So that to go to the old Fort Lauderdale question, if you were to die tonight and

725
00:54:33,312 --> 00:54:43,532
you were getting entry into heaven, what would you say? If you answer that, and if I answer it

726
00:54:43,532 --> 00:54:47,892
in the first person, we've immediately gone wrong.

727
00:54:50,332 --> 00:54:59,332
Because I—because I believed, because I have faith, because I am this, because I am continuing.

728
00:54:59,332 --> 00:55:06,852
loved ones, the only proper answer is in the third person, because he—because he—they

729
00:55:06,852 --> 00:55:13,152
think about the thief on the cross. And what an immense—I can't wait to find that fellow

730
00:55:13,152 --> 00:55:20,232
one day to ask him, how did that shake out for you? Because you were cussing the guy

731
00:55:20,232 --> 00:55:25,072
out with your friend. You'd never been in a Bible study. You'd never got baptized.

732
00:55:25,072 --> 00:55:31,952
You didn't know a thing about church membership, and yet you made it.

733
00:55:32,016 --> 00:55:34,336
How did you make it?

734
00:55:35,236 --> 00:55:38,176
That's what the angel must have said, you know, like, what are you doing here?

735
00:55:38,276 --> 00:55:38,976
Well, I don't know.

736
00:55:40,456 --> 00:55:42,156
What do you mean you don't know?

737
00:55:42,936 --> 00:55:44,416
Well, because I don't know.

738
00:55:45,496 --> 00:55:48,996
Well, you know, did you?

739
00:55:52,696 --> 00:55:54,676
Excuse me, let me get my supervisor.

740
00:55:54,996 --> 00:55:56,496
They go get the supervisor, Ranger.

741
00:55:57,836 --> 00:56:00,076
So we're just a few questions for you.

742
00:56:00,076 --> 00:56:06,256
first of all, are you clear on the doctrine of justification by faith?

743
00:56:08,756 --> 00:56:13,456
The guy said, I've never heard of it in my life. And what about—let's just go to the doctrine of

744
00:56:13,456 --> 00:56:17,716
Scripture immediately. This guy's just staring. And eventually, in frustration, he says,

745
00:56:17,836 --> 00:56:27,076
on what basis are you here? And he said, the man on the middle cross said, I can come.

746
00:56:27,076 --> 00:56:37,936
Now, that is the only answer. That is the only answer. And if I don't preach the gospel to myself

747
00:56:37,936 --> 00:56:45,276
all day and every day, then I will find myself beginning to trust myself, trust my experience,

748
00:56:45,276 --> 00:56:51,116
which is part of my fallenness as a man. If I take my eyes off the cross,

749
00:56:51,116 --> 00:57:00,696
I can then give only lip service to its efficacy, while at the same time living as if my salvation

750
00:57:00,696 --> 00:57:07,856
depends upon me. And as soon as you go there, it will lead you either to abject despair

751
00:57:07,856 --> 00:57:16,576
or a horrible kind of arrogance. And it is only the cross of Christ that deals both with the

752
00:57:16,576 --> 00:57:23,236
dreadful depths of despair and the pretentious arrogance of the pride of man that says,

753
00:57:23,236 --> 00:57:29,456
you know, I can figure this out and I'm doing wonderfully well. No, because the sinless Savior

754
00:57:29,456 --> 00:57:40,036
died, my sinful soul is counted free for God the just as satisfied to look on him and pardon me.

755
00:57:40,036 --> 00:57:47,056
That's why Luther says most of your Christian life is outside of you—in this sense that we know

756
00:57:47,056 --> 00:57:59,878
that we not saved by good works We not saved as a result of our professions but we saved as a result of what Christ has achieved

757
00:58:00,178 --> 00:58:00,898
Welcome back.

758
00:58:01,138 --> 00:58:02,278
I hope that was a good one.

759
00:58:03,098 --> 00:58:05,658
I've heard this referenced a couple times in other sermons,

760
00:58:05,818 --> 00:58:07,458
and I think this story kind of stands out

761
00:58:07,458 --> 00:58:12,258
because even the thief who just had faith was enough to make it there,

762
00:58:12,398 --> 00:58:13,238
and Jesus knew that.

763
00:58:13,878 --> 00:58:16,418
I also have to put one more thing

764
00:58:16,418 --> 00:58:18,578
because three is the magic number.

765
00:58:19,358 --> 00:58:24,878
And there was a song that One Church Home released before on Good Friday,

766
00:58:25,078 --> 00:58:28,438
and then they played on Sunday that I heard it

767
00:58:28,438 --> 00:58:31,858
because it was on the recording for the Sunday recording for Resurrection Day.

768
00:58:32,318 --> 00:58:32,958
And I loved it.

769
00:58:33,038 --> 00:58:36,018
And I've always wanted to make this show be like a radio station.

770
00:58:36,018 --> 00:58:38,038
That was the whole goal of Hello Fairview,

771
00:58:38,618 --> 00:58:41,158
where we had a weekly long format show,

772
00:58:41,278 --> 00:58:43,698
which was all the news squished together if you want to listen to it,

773
00:58:43,698 --> 00:58:46,638
but then also sprinkles of everything else from there.

774
00:58:47,318 --> 00:58:50,678
And this would be with the Godcaster app where we would be on there.

775
00:58:50,758 --> 00:58:54,378
So if people wanted to like have a radio station, you would hear the weather,

776
00:58:54,518 --> 00:58:55,778
you would hear some Christian radio,

777
00:58:55,778 --> 00:58:58,958
and you would hear these new segments sprinkled throughout the day.

778
00:58:59,398 --> 00:59:02,298
And then one long format a week that would actually be a podcast

779
00:59:02,298 --> 00:59:03,578
that you would download on its own.

780
00:59:04,638 --> 00:59:07,258
So we would hopefully get that truly local news

781
00:59:07,258 --> 00:59:09,138
because nothing exists anything like this.

782
00:59:09,638 --> 00:59:12,338
I don't know what will happen for this being the first episode

783
00:59:12,338 --> 00:59:18,298
with actual music in it. Um, but all rights and glory go to one church home team. Uh, they're

784
00:59:18,298 --> 00:59:23,318
amazing. Uh, and it's been great to watch them and see the thing. And it's such a great and

785
00:59:23,318 --> 00:59:29,298
uplifting song. And I hope, and I hope, and I hope that they publish it, um, so that you can buy it.

786
00:59:29,298 --> 00:59:34,278
And as soon as I see it in there, I'm definitely going to share, uh, because, uh, I'm not trying

787
00:59:34,278 --> 00:59:40,038
to monetize this in any way. I want them in the glory going to them and the church. So here we go.

788
00:59:42,338 --> 00:59:53,078
Before the dawn

789
00:59:53,078 --> 00:59:55,618
At the tomb

790
00:59:55,618 --> 00:59:58,038
Of the daylight

791
00:59:58,038 --> 01:00:02,838
The grave could never

792
01:00:02,838 --> 01:00:05,258
Hold the word

793
01:00:05,258 --> 01:00:20,780
Morning proved all they heard Praise I child testify Jesus alive

794
01:00:20,780 --> 01:00:24,780
Yeah, to the risen king.

795
01:00:24,780 --> 01:00:28,780
Yeah, to the risen king.

796
01:00:28,780 --> 01:00:30,780
Yeah, to the risen king.

797
01:00:30,780 --> 01:00:34,780
Yeah, to the risen king.

798
01:00:34,780 --> 01:00:53,200
He told him death would lose his claim

799
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:56,500
Spoke the word not to pray

800
01:00:56,500 --> 01:01:02,900
The king of death now in his hands

801
01:01:02,900 --> 01:01:06,680
All authority is command

802
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:11,640
Raise a child

803
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:13,300
Testify

804
01:01:13,300 --> 01:01:16,900
He's alive

805
01:01:16,900 --> 01:01:23,060
To the risen King

806
01:01:23,060 --> 01:01:27,380
Oh, everybody sing

807
01:01:27,380 --> 01:01:31,900
To the living God

808
01:01:32,900 --> 01:01:41,620
He came, He died

809
01:01:41,620 --> 01:01:46,600
Was the final love in the risen King

810
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:50,860
Death flows, hell knows

811
01:01:50,860 --> 01:01:56,080
Heaven rose, victory of the risen King

812
01:01:56,080 --> 01:02:00,500
Jesus, be raised.

813
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:05,780
All hail to Christ our risen King.

814
01:02:05,780 --> 01:02:06,860
Amen.

815
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:09,200
Amen.

816
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:14,780
Amen and amen and amen.

817
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:19,780
Hail to me.

818
01:02:20,780 --> 01:02:21,740
Hail.

819
01:02:21,740 --> 01:02:30,162
Oh hail King Jesus Oh

820
01:02:58,162 --> 01:03:03,922
Oh, everybody sing

821
01:03:03,922 --> 01:03:10,162
To the living, to the living, to the living, yeah

822
01:03:10,162 --> 01:03:13,162
Oh, yeah

823
01:03:13,162 --> 01:03:18,162
Oh, yeah

824
01:03:18,162 --> 01:03:21,162
Oh, yeah

825
01:03:21,162 --> 01:03:25,742
All right, welcome back for the third time

826
01:03:25,742 --> 01:03:30,842
with this being a special post Easter show, I think it's being a little bit different is okay.

827
01:03:31,662 --> 01:03:36,542
This week I wanted to, you know, do something a little different and here we go. You know,

828
01:03:36,602 --> 01:03:40,482
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829
01:03:41,022 --> 01:03:45,122
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830
01:03:45,122 --> 01:03:48,822
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831
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832
01:03:55,022 --> 01:03:58,962
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833
01:03:59,502 --> 01:04:02,362
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834
01:04:02,802 --> 01:04:06,862
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835
01:04:06,862 --> 01:04:11,322
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01:04:12,062 --> 01:04:12,602
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01:04:12,662 --> 01:04:14,482
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01:04:17,362 --> 01:04:20,402
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