All right, good morning everyone. Good morning. So good to be with you all this morning. My name is Alex. If I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting you yet, I am on staff here at sewer. I serve as the co director of our college ministry christian challenge. So, so excited to be with you all this morning. I’m really looking forward to getting into the word together. If you would open up your bibles to mark 12 versus 41 through 44 that’s the passage we’ll be looking at this morning. If you don’t have a bible with you, we have plenty on the chairs around you. Maybe row in front or behind. Uh, if you need one ask someone, I’m sure someone can help you out. Uh those bibles are free for the taking. So if you don’t have one and you need one, you want a bible to read. We want you to take it and read it and study God’s word and get to know him more. So as you’re turning there, I want to open up this morning with a story. So my sophomore year of high school, I started playing baseball when I was young and my sophomore year of high school I made the varsity baseball team. But the issue was I was very overmatched offensively. I was very overmatched as a hitter. I was not a good enough hitter to uh to really compete and to play well. And so um often times my my coach would ask me to sacrifice bunt. And so if you, if you guys aren’t familiar with baseball, if you don’t know what that means, basically, it’s where the hitter goes up and instead of swinging he takes his bat and just kind of like holds it out in front of him. And then as the pitcher throws the ball, then the the objective is to kind of dead in the ball or just lightly tap the ball in front of the plate, kind of in the area where the pitcher catcher are. And so the point of doing that, the point of sacrifice bunting is to intentionally get yourself out in order for your teammates who are on base to advance. So you intentionally get yourself out to move your teammates up and I promise you there were plenty of times where I got up there in my youthfulness and my excitement and my arrogance and my coach gives me the sign to sacrifice bunt and I’m like coach, gosh coach, you’re really giving me the sign to bunt right now. Like coach, if I get up there and you let me swing you let me swing from my heels as hard as I can. I promise you I can hit the best single you’ve ever seen like a hard single right back up the middle. It would be awesome man. It would be so much better than a sacrifice bunt. And so I would be thinking that in my head, but through that through that process and through that year especially I had to learn that in baseball sometimes. What’s best is to sacrifice sometimes. What’s best was for me to sacrifice, to lay down my own preferences, my own desires, my own excitement in order to honor my coach and to help my teammates. And so this morning, as we talked today about sacrificial giving, that’s our topic for this morning. Being rooted in sacrificial giving. What’s best for you personally, is not always what’s best according to God. And in fact in the christian life, what’s most comfortable or easiest for you is almost never what God is most pleased by. It is actually better for us to sacrifice, to give of who we are and of what we have, even to the point of it costing us significantly. So let’s turn our attention to the passage, I’m gonna read it for us and then we will pray together. So beginning in verse 41, this is speaking of Jesus. And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are co…