Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Alright, so I'm going to begin a new series for four weeks called Good News.

And we're going to talk about Good News and obviously we're going to talk about the Good News of the Gospel,

but we're going to go in depth in a way that maybe you've never done it in four specific areas.

In other words, I'm going to take four words that without Christ are bad news.

But with Christ, these words actually become Good News. Everything changed when Christ came.

And so the first word, and I'm just tidling the message to this, so this doesn't sound like an exciting title. Let me go and tell you that.

But the title of the message today is condemnation. Isn't that great?

But it will turn out Good News. But when I began a series, just so you know, about the first half, sometimes the first two-thirds of the first message is building the foundation of the series.

So we won't even get to the word condemnation until the third point.

But we're going to talk about Good News. If there's ever a time when the world needs Good News, it's right now.

I mean, it's nearly all bad news, you know? You can't hardly just go to a browser without seeing bad news.

The news doesn't even seem to be the news anymore. They could just rename it bad news.

And it seems all slanted, whether it's conservative or liberal, it's all slanted.

And it seems to be that a lot of news channels are just a bunch of arguing.

I mean, I can't even watch anymore. I'd like to just know who won the gold medal, please.

I'd like to know the news. But I don't want four people just arguing about something. It's just crazy.

Now, when I was growing up, there was a news man now granted. I did not like the news when I was a child.

I didn't watch the news unless I had to and didn't listen even when I did.

But there was a news man, a news anchor, when I was a child named Walter Cronkite.

Does anyone remember Walter Cronkite? Okay. He was called, some of you might remember this, the most trusted man in America.

You know why? Because he simply told you the news.

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