Hey everybody, this is Andy Wood, and I'm the pastor here at Saddleback Church, and this is our podcast.

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It's so great to be together as a church family. Some of you, maybe you're here for the very first time. Others of you, perhaps, you've been coming to Saddleback for decades. And one of the

things I love about this weekend is, first of all, we get to celebrate that Jesus is alive, the true historical fact

that God came from heaven to earth. He died on a cross for our sins. He conquered the grave.

We celebrate that. But also, today, we have people at all different places in their journey spiritually.

Some of you, maybe you're new to faith. You're exploring what

you believe. Others of you, you've been going to Easter services and celebrating your entire life

and everything in between. But the truth is, for all of us, we have something in common, wherever

we are in our journey spiritually. And one of the things I know to be true about you is that there

are times in your life where you wrestle with doubt.

You wrestle with what do you believe? What do you believe about God? What do you believe about truth? What is true? And all of this as a human we wrestle through. Now that doubt does not make you weird. It makes you human. And it's not so much if you have doubts. It's what you do with those doubts

that matters and makes the difference. And today I want to wrestle through a very important

question because for many people, their doubts keep them away from God. But your doubt actually

can become the thing that pushes you into God. So the question today is how do I overcome my doubts that keep me from God? How do I

overcome the doubts that have the potential to keep me from God? Now, there are two things I want

you know. First of all, there are notes in your program. If you can pull those out, those notes,

you can journey along with the message. Also, you'll see an Easter survey that we should

have already located. It says check in on the top of it, so you can grab that as well. I'll

invite you to fill that out at the end as we all take next steps together. But today we're

going to wrestle through this question as we look at the Gospel of John. Now John was one of the early followers of

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