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Why do I have to go through a trial? Why can I just go from mountaintop to mountaintop in the Christian life?

Pastor Greg Lorry points out the tough times of life are a valuable schoolmaster. Without

them, our faith doesn't toughen up and solidify.

We learn things in deserts and valleys and times of trial that we do not learn anywhere else.

Here's the way I look at it. Better to be in a valley or a desert with

Jesus and anywhere else without him.

This is the day when the lost I found.

This is the day for a new beginning. Amazing grace and sweet the sound.

Again you can't run a real relation to see me.

This is the day, the day when life begins.

Getting everything we want, success, money, respect, would be an amazing way to live, right?

Well, look at celebrities who have success and money and respect, and look at how often they suffer from depression and addictions and sometimes die quite

young. Maybe many people want the wrong things. Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg

Lorry helps us learn from Elijah.

We'll see he learned from some of the toughest challenges lie through with him, and we can too. Since the day the day we're lost their views.

Let me start with the question.

Have you ever faced a time where you felt isolated and alone.

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