Hi friends,

I pray all you baby sharks had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Me and my fam saw Black panther and ate delicious Tacos.

I forgot to record Sunday’s sermon so Ethan was able to record the facebook live recording so the sound may be a lil eh,

The Sermon was a simple sermon because we wanted to make time for our annual boxes of love food distribution for members and friends of church members.

Here’s a pic of my beautiful wife getting ready to distribute after her, some volunteers (mainly the church kids) put together some bags for families (40% of the bags went to families in a shelter)

The rough notes of the sermon:

Stay the course

Don't give up

Stay encouraged

Bear the fruits of the spirit

Abide the vine

It's better to give than receive

Stay humble, holy, happy, healthy and helpful

Beware of secret sin list, drunkenness, gluttony, gossip

Be willing to serve and sacrifice for the kingdom

Let's look at some lessons from Jesus interaction with plp receiving miracle's

• Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?” “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.” ----------

John 8:10‭-‬11 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/jhn.8.10-11.NLT

*Turn around

• “Are you the Messiah we’ve been expecting, or should we keep looking for someone else?” Jesus told them, “Go back to John and tell him what you have heard and seen— the blind see, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor.” And he added, “God blesses those who do not fall away because of me.”

Matthew 11:3‭-‬6 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/mat.11.3-6.NLT

Don't be ashamed or offended

• When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man to Jesus, and they begged him to touch the man and heal him. Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then, spitting on the man’s eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked, “Can you see anything now?” The man looked around. “Yes,” he said, “I see people, but I can’t see them very clearly. They look like trees walking around.” Then Jesus placed his hands on the man’s eyes again, and his eyes were opened. His sight was completely restored, and he could see everything clearly. Jesus sent him away, saying, “Don’t go back into the village on your way home.”

Mark 8:22‭-‬26 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.8.22-26.NLT

Second touch and avoid faith drainers

If this was inspirational and you want to buy me a coffee or a book

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Please keep the Castro family in your prayers.

Ethan Castro has been presented with a partial grant to take part in an AI conference in New Orleans next week.

https://www.latinxinai.org/.

Here's some of his work:

https://medium.com/.../you-hear-about-artificial...

https://medium.com/.../wall-e-warned-us-of-dall-e-ethics...

Ethan is using this year to learn Data Science and AI.

He was presented as best presenter and was on a top 5 team at the Princeton Hackathon

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