I'm I'm I'm going anybody at church at the high islands thankful for the goodness of our God. Let's give him some phrase.

I'm just so inspired by watching McKenzie's story and just the goodness of God right there in the

middle of her situation, just celebrating that. And just want to take a moment. Say hello to all

of our locations. We just joined together as one family, one big church family across Alabama and

Georgia. What an honor it is to be with everyone

today at every location online, on demand, inter correctional facilities, wherever you're watching.

God is truly with us today, and we are now seven weeks into a series all about the goodness

of God. Psalm 348. Are y'all okay if I go straight to the Word of God today? Come on, we need it. Come on, Psalm 34-8's been our key text. Put it on the screen. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. And blessed are those who take refuge in Him. So we've been saying it for seven weeks. We're going to say it strong today. God is good. And all the time. Come, put your hands together and let's celebrate one more time.

The goodness of our God. And God is good. God is good in Birmingham. God is good in Tuscaloosa.

God is good in Auburn. Come on. God is good with that UAB football victory. I had to say it.

God is good. Maybe not so much in Memphis today, but he is in Birmingham.

And so God is good. We're celebrating that in this series. And if you've missed any of these seven

weeks, please go back and watch them. God has truly uniquely timed this series. And we just heard

so much feedback from people of how God's met them right where they are. So I won't go through

all of the topics, but they've been powerful topics around serving and growing different areas. But today's topic is a little difference. Out of a serious topic, we're going to have fun today. We're going to get in the Word of God, but there's definitely a weight to today. Today we're going to talk about suffering. And no one got up and took a lap right there right it's a serious topic but in fact

about six months ago this is the topic god actually kind of birthed in my heart that led to this

whole series and so today if you have your app i'd love you to take it out to take notes today very

important day to take notes i believe god's going to minister to our hearts and notes are away

for us just to collect thoughts and of course to write down some things that can help us even beyond Sunday.

Today we're going to talk about how Jesus wept, how we as a people, can experience the goodness

of God even in the middle of our suffering.

And this is one of those topics.

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