Time | When Less is More | Pastor Rob Koke | Shoreline Churc

Good morning, everyone, so great to have you. Welcome to Shoreline. We want to give a very warm welcome to all of you who are watching online from around the community. In some cases, even around the state and the nation, we welcome you to our campuses here in Austin, Texas. Let's give them a great big hand clap. This is also a Sunday that's kind of special on the national scope. This is Martin Luther King weekend, and tomorrow we celebrate his birthday. And I think it's worthy for us to just pause and note what an incredible American Martin Luther King was and the movement that he led for equality. And I was looking for a quote that I wanted to share with you. I think we'll kind of put this up here on the screen. There were so many different quotes that had to do with brotherhood, that had to do with sisterhood, that had to do with community, belonging, and really caring for each other. But this one caught my attention. Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites. And I think it's worthy for us to just pause and celebrate this great American. Let's give him a great big hand clap this morning. All right, let's all of us stand to our feet. We are going to do what we do at the beginning of every single message. We are going to recite our shoreline creed. If you're new to shoreline, this is just something we do every single week to remind us that Christianity is not just information, thoughts on how to live a better life. It's about God's grace. It's about God doing for us what we could never do for ourselves. And we celebrate this with our creed. And we say it out loud together. If you want to, you can join us or just read along.

But everyone, are you ready? Are you guys ready? Okay, here we go. I am loved by God. I cannot earn it. I cannot lose it. I am forgiven and made brand new. In Christ, I live passion and purpose. I am empowered by the Spirit to be the church in the world and to live this love revolution. Come on, let's give God praise for that. You may be seated. So if you've been with us for the last few weeks, you know we started this year around a collection of talks with the title, When Less is More. There are some things, of course, that we want more of. We want more joy, more faith, more life, more of God. But there are some things that we can, you know, subtly be deceived into thinking that if we have more of it, it's gonna benefit our lives. But there is a truth that we need to embrace that there are some things about our lives that if we have less of it, it will actually increase the quality and substance of our life. And that's the thought behind When Less is More. And the verse of Scripture that we are highlighting embodies this probably better than any other verse. It's a verse that comes from a direct quote of Jesus. And Jesus was talking with his disciples. And by the way, anytime you see that word disciple in the Bible, it's talking about a fully devoted follower. And that's what we're all about here at Shoreline. We're not just about casual Christianity. We're not just about checking in and then doing your own thing.

We're about growing in a relationship with God where it would be described of us that we are fully devoted followers of Jesus. That's what we all aspire to. And here's what Jesus said to his fully devoted followers. Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their lives will lose it. And whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. That's probably the ultimate when less is more. Less of me and more of God. We started in the first week. We talked about less food to get more focus. Last week we talked about less comfort to get more clout, to get more strength in our lives. This week, we're gonna talk about less minutes to get more moments. We wanna talk about time. And we spend a lot of time, interestingly enough, talking about time. We say we're wasting time or killing time or saving time or spending time or investing time. We sometimes wish that time could stand still. We say time is money, that time waits for no person. And we all have the exact amount of time in a day, every single one of us, 24 hours, 168 hours in a week. We all deal with the same time. We're gonna be together here in this message for the next 30 to 35 minutes, and that's gonna reflect time. And so that you understand that this message is all about time,

I've got this little circle on the far left-hand screen that is going to go across this screen today in 35 minutes, so you'll know exactly how much time I've got left. But time is valuable. We want more time. A friend of mine was doing a seminar for some university students at UT here in town, and he was addressing the MBA class of finance students, and he asked this question, and I thought this was really profound. First, he just asked, how many of you know Warren Buffett? And everybody in their class knew who Warren Buffett was and is. You might not know, but most of you probably do. He's one of the richest people on the planet. He's worth 146 point something billion dollars. I looked it up yesterday. That's up yesterday. Maybe give or take a few million. He's worth a bunch. He built a company from scratch. He's 95-year-old financier. My friend asked this particular class a question that I think is kind of important, and I want you to envision how you might respond if this question was asked to you. He asked the class, how many of you want Warren Buffett's money? If you had the chance to receive it as a gift, how many of you would want it?

And everybody's hand went up, 146 billion. Yes, thank you very much. I'll take it. But he said, how many of you would want it if the condition on you receiving that money is that you had to exchange ages with Warren Buffett? You'd have to be 95 years old. And every single one of the students' hands came down. Now, I might be talking to somebody who's 95 right now, and you say, I'll still take the deal. But I imagine that most of us would not exchange our life for money. And I hope that settles in your heart just how valuable time is. We like to optimize our time. When you put an address in your GPS, how many of you, when it shows options, because now it does, it shows cheaper or faster or some combination, how many of you always choose the faster option? Yeah, you just wanna get there fast. And then when it shows the ETA, how many of you play a game and try to beat the ETA? Come on, yeah, I know. We're in that group together. People multitask all in an effort to save a few seconds. But every significant survey that's ever been done on the American population has said that we are a nation of very busy, tired people. We've got to do business with this thing called time.

Now, the Greeks had two different words for time. They had chronos, which is what we know of time. It's probably what you instinctively thought about when you thought about time. It's the seconds, it's the minutes, it's the hours in a day. Tick, tock, tick, tock, and the circle is moving. Time is relentlessly advancing forward. There is a picture of chronos, what he morphed into. He kind of got combined with a Greek god. And there is such a dark picture. I was gonna show it to you, but you're gonna have to look it up on your. don't do it now, save it for a later time. But it was such a dark picture. It was this ravenous kind of wild eyed figure that was consuming their own children. And it was dark, but it gave perhaps insight into what unredeemed time looks like, what misspent time looks like. Unredeemed Kronos delivers a dark reality. It devours what we love the most, our relationships, our children's childhood, our health, our friendships, our marriages. It's the relentless forced march of time. That's what Kronos is. But there is another word for time, and it's called Kairos. And this is a completely different definition of time. In Kairos time, you ask not what time is it,

you ask what is time for? Kairos is time that is pregnant with purpose. Kairos is those divine moments that God creates in the Kronos journey of our lives. Ecclesiastes speaks about Kairos. There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven. Each moment in Kairos is a God moment. In Ecclesiastes 3.10, he has made everything beautiful in its time. We can in Kairos experience the sacred in the normal journey of our life. We can experience the divine in the daily. We can experience the moments in the minutes. And God wants to help all of us here today to find the Kairos in the midst of the Kronos. And in order to do that, we have to be willing to give up some of our Kronos to get the Kairos. We gotta be willing to embrace the idea that less is more, that we need to invest some time. We gotta be willing to give up some of our Kronos. We need to be willing to give up some of our minutes in order that we would experience the moments, the divine, the sacred. And I wanna highlight for you here this morning, this is the journey that we're gonna be on. I'm gonna share with you three places or three ways that God wants you to make some time available

in order for you to get the benefits of the Kairos, the God moments that he wants to pour into your life. So first part of the message, these three areas that we're gonna invest time in, and then the remainder of the message to talk about the benefits that you will receive if you do that. So the three ways the Bible speaks to us about taking time out. First, you need to take time out for personal devotions. That's something that I try to do first thing every single day, but it's not always easy, especially if you're on the journey of raising young kids. Laura and I had the opportunity to watch our grandchildren this past week for a full week, Monday all the way through to Friday morning. And we don't normally do that. Sometimes we get them for a night, but we had them all week. And there's always a little bit of anxiousness when you think about watching two and three year olds, four year olds. So we had all three of them at our house on Monday night, and they all slept like, oh my gosh, all through the night. It was amazing. We had fun together. We were high-fiving. It was great. Laura and I looked at each other on Tuesday morning and said, we got this, we got this.

We're the best grandparents there ever were until Tuesday night. And Tuesday night, they started crying. Tuesday night, they started coming out of their bedroom, coming into our bedroom. Tuesday night, you know, Laura got out of bed probably one o'clock in the morning. Nala was crying, went over to try to figure out what was going on. And she was gone for about a half hour. And so I decided to go over there to see if I could help. And so I did, and she was still crying. A little bit, I picked her up and Laura and I brought her back to our bedroom, put her in our bed between us, where she proceeded to kick me 1,000 times, flailing her arm, hitting my face. And then somewhere, probably 2.30 or three o'clock in the morning, she just kind of bolts up. Laura and I are looking at each other and she kisses me twice on the cheek. Oh my gosh. That was a Kairos moment, a God moment. And I thought to myself, that makes up for the 1,000 kicks I've just received until she proceeded to kick me another 1,000 times after the kiss. So we woke up the next morning, probably as some of you moms and dads do

every single day, bleary-eyed. And having a quiet time was a very difficult thing to decide to do. In fact, what I did on this past week was I had to switch my quiet time from first thing in the morning to after those two tornadoes went to bed. And sometimes it's difficult to carve out that time. I'm giving some evidence of that. But the truth is, it's so vital and so important. This is not something that I am wanting to put in the suggestion category of your life. Hey, it's a good idea for you to spend some time. I wanna go a little bit more forceful than that. I think the Bible is pretty clear that this is one of those non-negotiable things that every single one of us need to do as FDFs, as fully devoted followers. If we wanna be a true disciple, we need to carve out some of our chronos and spend that in personal devotion to the Lord. In 1 Chronicles 16, it says, seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his presence continuously. And what might a personal devotional time look like? I think it might include things like taking time for some worship. Psalm 103, praise the Lord, O my soul, all my innermost being. Maybe taking some time to meditating on his word.

Psalm number one, blessed is the one whose delight is in the law of the Lord, who meditates on his law day and night. And perhaps taking some time for prayer. Pray without ceasing, 1 Thessalonians challenges us to do. So the first area where we need to take some time out is in personal devotion. The second area that we need to take time out in is for the Sabbath. In Exodus chapter 20 in verse eight, it says, remember the Sabbath by keeping it holy. Now, when you hear that word holy, that's a spiritual word, right? You would think that the Bible is filled with that particular word. In fact, so much so that when you refer to the Bible, it's often, you know, got a title on it right here in my Bible, it says, holy Bible. And what that word holy means is completely dedicated to the Lord. So whatever is holy completely belongs to him. It's like a non-negotiable, very important thing to come to grips with. Do you know that the first time that word holy is even recorded in the Bible is in reference to the Sabbath? The very first time you read that word in the Bible is on this particular focus. The children of Israel would honor that day. It was holy.

It was a day set aside from all of the other days. Keeping the Sabbath was so important that God actually listed it in the 10 commandments. Right up there with thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not kill. Things that we would say, oh, for sure, are not suggestions. Yet this particular commandment, we often treat it just that way. God modeled the Sabbath. It was so important to him when he created the world. He created it in six days. And then on the seventh day, the Bible says he rested. Does God need to rest? No, he's all-powerful, he's all-knowing. He's got infinite of everything. But he rested to model it for us. Six days to work, one to keep holy. One of the best things that Laura and I made a decision to do. in our marriage was to honor a Sabbath and keep it holy. And the third investment of time that the Bible challenges us to, is to take out time to time out for community. Take time out for community. In Acts chapter five and verse 42, day after day in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah. Notice the two places where there was a focus of their time. Some of their time was spent in the temple

and some of their time was spent house to house. The way that we could, I think, appropriately interpret the message of that particular verse is that we need to take time to meet in the sanctuary as we are doing here. Because there's some things that happen in a sanctuary that cannot be replaced anywhere else. There is some power that's made available when we corporately worship the Lord together. And when we hear the word of God together, there's something about hearing it in community together that makes it more real and more potent in our lives. But they also met in house to house. They met where, as that sitcom says, where somebody knows your name, where everyone in that group knows your name. We say that we need to meet in rows in the sanctuary and in circles, whether they're in classrooms or in homes, where you can belong and be connected with other believers. We love our small group. Laura and I are a part of a small group and we love our group. In fact, even as I was making my way into the sanctuary, I saw Rebecca and David, they're in our small group, just high-fived them in the lobby. And there's a connection that comes from knowing what journey they're on. They know the journey we are on. We pray for each other. We shed tears together.

Our small group texts back and forth throughout the week, sharing funny memes and sometimes meaningful prayer requests and inspiring stories, and sometimes even things as practical as recipes. Because you know, at the beginning of this year, many of us were on a Daniel fast. Rebecca is an amazing cook. And she brought to our small group a Daniel-approved Mexican meal that was so delicious, it was like Kairos. A moment from heaven. I'm just here to tell you that we need each other. So many times, the Bible talks about how we need to relate to one another, love one another, honor one another, bear one another's burdens, be kind to one another, forgive one another, encourage one another. And you need to be connected in a small group in order for that to happen. I was reading a book on discipleship, on how to be a fully devoted follower, and the author of this particular book said what I truly believe in my heart is true, that there is no way for you to meaningfully become a disciple, a fully devoted follower, without being relationally connected with other believers, being a part of a small group that helps hold you accountable and encourage you and pray for you. And so there are three places

where we need to invest our kronos in order to get the kairos. We need to be committed to personal devotions, to the Sabbath, and jointly worshiping together, and we also need to make that investment in small groups, in relationships with one another. Every single one of us has 24 hours in a day. Every one of us, 168 hours in a week. All of us, 672 hours in a month. But in order to get the most out of our time, we gotta be willing to give some of our time. We gotta give up some minutes to get the moments. Where are we at? A little past halfway, right? Here are some of the reasons why God wants us to take timeouts. I noticed that the timeouts that God wants us to do spiritually are often the same reasons why a coach might call a timeout in a game. You know, I grew up, you know, a sports fan. I love sports. So baseball and basketball and football, they all have timeouts associated with it. There's one, you know, kind of sport that's gaining popularity, you know, around the world it's the most popular, but they don't have timeouts. It's soccer, it's a dumb sport. But all the good red blood American sports,

no, I'm only teasing. They got timeouts. And the coach will make a tee with his hands, call a timeout for some of the exact reasons why God wants you to call a timeout in your own life. For instance, timeouts break the momentum of the adversary. Have you ever seen a basketball coach, you know, their team is out there on the floor and they're getting, you know, just overwhelmed by the momentum of the other team. They stole a ball and dunked it, you know, they intercepted the inbound pass and dunked it again. Then they, you know, stole the ball and shot a three. And then all of a sudden 10 points have been scored so fast that the coach calls a timeout to break the momentum of the adversary. Sometimes the devil can seem like he's having a heyday in our lives. And we got problems at work and we got problems with the kids, problems in our marriage, problems with health. And it just seems like it's an ongoing, overflowing attack of the enemy. You need a timeout. You need to connect with God in personal devotions. You need to get to church. You need to be involved in your small group. The Bible tells us in Ephesians chapter six, for our struggles are not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities and powers of darkness.

I'm just here to tell you the devil is real. And we need to have a little bit less of the Kronos in order to get the Kairos. You know, sometimes I hear people say that, you know, they came to church and they were just overwhelmed with all the negative circumstances taking place in their life. And they came to church and they came in one way, but they left differently. They left encouraged. They left blessed. They gave up some minutes, but they got a moment that is going to sustain them and give them the victory. Timeouts will break the momentum of our adversary, but timeouts also create some momentum on our own. Sometimes the coach will look at a team and see that they're lazy or lethargic, or maybe they're just not getting after it. They're caught in a rut. And they just take some time out for inspiration. I think that happens to each and every one of us in our own journey. Timeouts are for encouragement. You open your Bible and you read a promise. You come to church and you hear about how Moses split the Red Sea, or how Daniel, you know, was able to be strong in the midst of the lion's den.

You read about Peter walking on the water and you hear about it and inspires you. And it creates a momentum on your own journey. Sometimes timeouts provide rest. Sometimes the coach will call a timeout because the team is tired. They've been running up and down the court and they need a breather. And so maybe you've seen that where the coach calls a timeout and then they bring out the chairs from the edge of the court out onto the court itself. And they're in a circle and then they're sitting down for just a couple of minutes to catch their breath. I just want you to know that God loves his kids getting the rest that they need. Psalm 127, God wants his loved ones to get their proper rest. And that's what actually the word Sabbath is. It's a day of rest where you can withdraw from all of the influences that are out there in society, all the voices and get some spiritual rest, some emotional rest and some physical rest. A lot of people find it hard to rest. I'm in that category. I always want to be on the go. Laura makes fun of me from time to time, just saying, you know what, you're always busy. You're always doing something.

I'm the guy, even if I'm watching something, you know, sports on television, I've got my computer open and I'm dealing with email and other things all at the same time. We're perhaps addicted. Sometimes we feel guilty about taking a. Rest, and I'm just here to tell you that God wants to give you rest. We are not human doings. We are human beings. God wants us to enjoy the journey. Psalm 46 and verse 10, be still and know that I am God. Timeouts are also for plans and plays and strategy. Often you'll see a coach, he'll call a timeout and then he'll gather the players together and he's got his chalkboard out, that little kind of vinyl board, and he's got his marker and he's laying out a strategy, a plan. He's giving some information. He's telling one of his players, listen, I want you to set a pick so that our star three-pointer can shoot the winning shot so we can win the game. Often in the timeout comes a plan or a play or a strategy. And that's what happens when you take timeout, either in personal devotions or honoring the Sabbath, coming to church, or in your small group,

you'll get a plan, you'll get a play. Just like there are two words that describe time, Kronos and Kairos, there are two words to describe the word of God, Logos and Rhema. Logos is the written word of God. It's the general revelation of God. When you open up your Bible, you will read the Logos, the revealed will of God. But every once in a while, God can take a Logos and make it a Rhema to your heart. That's where the word of God isn't just the revealed will of God, it's made personal to your life. It inspires faith and courage, and it inspires you to live the way God wants you to live. Maybe even on a Sunday morning, you'll hear me preaching the Logos, but the Holy Spirit will take the message I'm sharing and make it Rhema to your heart, make it alive in you. This happens every once in a while, and it kind of cracks me up when it does. I'll be out in the lobby, just greeting people, and someone will come up to me and say, what you shared today changed my life. And then they'll go on to say what I said, and I'll be thinking as they're talking, I didn't say that. I don't know where you got that. And then I realized that what's very, very possible is that as I'm speaking the words that God gave me,

the Holy Spirit can take those words and apply them to your journey in a way that you need the most. That's why we can't be treating this as a suggestion, as a kind of, yeah, maybe I will, maybe I won't kind of approach. We've gotta be a lot more dogmatic than that. We've gotta make a commitment to investing some of our Kronos to make sure we get the Kairos. Timeouts are for getting healed. Sometimes a coach will call a timeout because a player on the field needs to walk off an injury. They sprained an ankle or bruised a thigh. Sometimes you get bruised up. Sometimes, you know, life takes a swing at you and you've got some challenges. Timeouts are for getting the healing that we need. And I'm so glad that when we gather together on Sunday mornings, every single Sunday after the service is dismissed, we call our prayer partners forward here to the front. And no matter what it is that you're going through, no matter what burden you brought to church, you can meet with a prayer partner and you'll pray together. And James tells us that when we pray and believe together, miracles unfold. Timeouts are to reconnect with our teammates. Sometimes timeouts are called so that the players can encourage each other. I've seen it happen in baseball

where the whole infield will come together and encourage the pitcher who might've thrown a couple of balls in a game and they come together and they encourage. Hey, you've got this. It's an important moment, but you've got what it takes. And they slap each other on the butt. I'm not saying that we should do that at church. Might get in trouble. But I am saying that when we call a timeout, we can encourage each other and lift each other up. Hebrews chapter 10 says, and let us consider how we may spur one another on towards love and good deeds. Not giving up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another. How many times have I gone, and I didn't even tell a single other person, how many times have I gone to my small group and just being in the atmosphere of other believers lifted my spirits and encouraged me and nobody knew that I was going through a challenge. We need each other. And perhaps most importantly, timeouts are about reconnecting with the coach. When the coach calls a timeout, sometimes he'll be looking at the players. Hey, look me straight in the eye, come on. I'm looking at you, you're looking at me.

It's about reconnecting with our coach. We get away from our daily routine. We get away from the different locations we find ourselves. We get away from the voices of our culture, the music of our culture, the dance and the rhythm of our culture. We say, listen, it's unavoidable for us not to be exposed to what's happening out there, but we absolutely have got to take a part of our chronos, a part of our minutes to get moments with God to defeat the voices of our culture that sometime grab hold of our thinking. And the coach will help us. Every week we face the task of rubbing shoulders with people with totally different value systems than what we have. So we take time for personal devotions. We take time for a Sabbath. We take time for small groups so that we can enjoy his presence and we can receive directly from him. Think about it. Christianity, at the end of the day, it's not just information. It's not just principles. We get as human beings to live in a life-giving relationship with the King of kings and Lord of lords, the creator of the universe.

And you'll never enjoy that. You'll never experience it as fully as God wants you to experience it without adopting a little bit of the less is more, less of your minutes for more of those moments. I love this verse. In Matthew 11, verse 28. All right, the ball's all there at the end. So I'm landing this plane. Don't worry, you won't be late to Cracker Barrel. Matthew 11, verse 28 through verse 30 from the Message Translation reads like this. Are you tired, worn out, burned out on religion? Come to me, get away with me, and you'll recover your life. And I will show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me. Walk with me and work with me. Walk with me and work with me. Watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. Oh, I love that. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy on you or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you will learn to live freely and lightly. Yeah. I think there's a little bit of adrenaline junkie in every single one of us. I like fast cars, fast life, fast women.

No, I'm only, I'm not. Just wanted to see if you were still awake. I love being productive. Perhaps you do too. Managing my schedule to peak efficiency. I wanna live my life to the very fullest. And yet sometimes less is more. It's counterintuitive that we would give up some time to get the right time, to give up the chronos to get the kairos, to give up the daily to get the divine, to give up the minutes to get the moments. This is an area of our life where less is more. Amen. Let's pray. Father, I know that all of us, we wanna live as disciples. We wanna live. as fully devoted followers. And Father, I'm not trying to make it legalistic here, Lord. I just want us to find the right path. And I'm asking that you would lead each and every one of us here this morning to those moments of personal devotion, to making non-negotiable commitments to the Sabbath, and Father, for making that incredible, important step to getting connected and belonging with other brothers and sisters in Christ in small groups.

Father, help us to give some of our Kronos to that so we can get the Kairos that you want us to have and live with in Jesus' name. Still with every head bowed and every eye closed, maybe you came to church today and you know what? You're not where you need to be with God. You know that, you know God knows that. Maybe you made a decision at one point in time, but you slipped away. Maybe you've never invited Jesus to be your Lord and Savior, but if you're here today and you wanna meet him for the very first time or you wanna rededicate your life to serving him, I want you to raise your hand quickly and boldly wherever you are. Wonderful, hands are going up all over. I wanna lead all of you with your hands raised in a very simple prayer to invite Jesus into your heart. And I want you to pray this prayer out loud. And everyone else, as a reaffirmation of your faith in God, let's all of us pray together. Let's all of us pray. Heavenly Father, I thank you for sending Jesus. Jesus, I ask you to come into my heart. Forgive me of all my sins. I put my trust in you and I will live for you from this day forward by your power, for your glory in Jesus' name, amen. Would you give them all a great big hand clap? Now we're gonna be dismissed in just a moment.

So everybody just remain seated, but Pastor Oscar over here on my left and your right, that's our West entrance. He's holding up a sign that said made brand new. That's exactly what happened when you prayed today. We wanna give you a Bible and some information that'll really help you on your spiritual journey. So after we're dismissed today, we would love for you to go right over there and get that information. But we also wanna encourage you today because small groups kick off on Wednesday night here at Shoreline. We also want you to go out into our lobby. We've got all kinds of groups for you to sign up for. There's members of our staff that are out there to help facilitate key volunteers. And we also wanna encourage you if you want to, you can do it by text. You can get a lot of that information right now. Just text SL, that's Shoreline Connect to 97000. Just text SL Connect, 97000 will lead you through a step-by-step process for you to get the information that you need to be in a small group. And don't let this year pass you by. Listen, this is the first month in a brand new year. We can start new habits that will richly bless our life. And we wanna encourage you to get connected. Let's all of us stand to our feet. As we close, I'm gonna ask our prayer partners

to come up here to the front. We always have invite cards at the exits. If you wanna grab some of those to invite your friends. But don't forget to sign up and be a part of a group. It starts this Wednesday. God bless you. Have a fantastic rest of your afternoon. And don't forget to cheer on the Texans. They're playing today. They're the only team in Texas left in the mix. So come on. All right, God bless you. We'll see you on Wednesday night.