Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

My foot slip, your love with steadfast, it never moved.

My faith is not in my foot because my foot's always slipping.

My faith is in your steadfast love because when I go under the water you stay on top of it.

Our God is a God who will always be there to catch us,

always be there to pick us back up,

always be there to lift us back on top of the waves.

So when you waver, put your eyes back on him.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor, author, and theologian JD Greer.

I'm your host Molly Vittovic and we are so thankful to be jumping into God's word with you again today.

You know, we've all had the experience of starting a new diet or a workout routine

and in fact, many of us are waiting for that magical day called January 1st to do just that.

We're super excited at the beginning and we're doing a ton of research

and bringing it up in conversation, posting about it, all over social media.

But then as it becomes a bit more routine, it usually gets a lot harder to stay motivated

and gets more monotonous to keep it up.

Well, today Pastor JD warns us about a similar effect that can happen in our spiritual lives.

We're learning how to build perseverance as we kick off a new teaching series today called Staying Faith.

Pastor JD titled this message Strong from Start to Finish.

We all have the experience of starting things with enthusiasm and then peering out along the ways.

Isn't that correct? Don't we all have that experience?

When the life of faith, we have the experience.

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