Thank you.

The show is stand-to-reason friends. I'm Greg Hokeley your host and welcome to it and to me.

I finished last hour talking to the same guy a long time and poor Brandon was left on hold.

I promised him I'd get right to him and then all of a sudden he disappeared between hours but fortunately he called back.

So let's just go right to Brandon and to come to Washington. What happened to you Brandon?

I don't know what happened my call dropped or something but I figured I'd call back.

Oh okay well I'm glad you did because we totally freaked on this end. We felt so bad we lost you and I told I said that I was going to take your call right off.

So here we are. How can I help Brandon to come to Washington right?

You have to come to Washington.

Yeah I just want to call I had a question about kind of doubts in general.

I tend to find myself struggling with doubts quite often and I kind of a two-bar question with that.

My first part of the question is that I always have this doubt that I'm worried that I'm just leaning on Christianity as a crutch.

Because I know that I need it in my life to make sense. For my life to make sense, for anything to make sense, I know I need Christianity to be true and I need Jesus to be the son of God.

I need all of it for anything to make sense around me.

It's like I sometimes get worried that I'm telling myself something that I don't fully believe just to help make sense in my life and I want to so bad and I go to church and I've been baptized but sometimes I struggle with the doubt.

My second part of that was I know in the Bible it says that if you need to believe your whole heart and my question is with that is if I'm having doubts, is that me not believing with my whole heart?

Where are you citing right now?

When you say believe with your whole heart, where are you citing?

I can't remember the exact verse but I thought it was going to line up.

I think it's in Jeremiah actually, Jeremiah 29 and I think there was a very particular circumstance that was being addressed by Jeremiah in that passage.

It's often quoted but you will find me when you seek and search for me with all your heart.

That sounds like that's an extreme kind of requirement and I actually think it applied in that case because Israel had been so rebellious and made a lot of false moves, disingenuous moves to following God that God said, OK, now you're going to get, you're getting it whacked here by Nebuchadnezzar.

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