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I'm glad to have all of our life churches with us today.

I'm glad to have all of our network churches with us today.

I just want to tell you, we're launching into a brand new three-part message series called

When God Doesn't Makes Sense.

I know that there's not a week that goes by when you look at things going on in current events,

maybe when you look at things going on in your own life, there's so much pain, so much heartache,

so much confusion in this world that it's really, really easy to look on and say,

I don't like the way that's going.

That's what I want to talk about for the next three weeks when we see things that don't really make sense.

And I will tell you going into this message series, this is a really good time to invite somebody that may have walked away from their faith

because they were hurt by circumstances or someone is going through a really difficult time.

This is a perfect time to invite them.

I also want to tell you and just kind of warn you as we walk into this three-part message series that many of you are not going to like this message series.

This doesn't feel real good, it's not hilarious, there's not a lot of tweetable little things you can say,

there's no practical steps, it's simply not a feel good message at all, there are no easy answers.

And so I just wanted to tell you that, so you'd be really glad you came to church today and say,

I'm thrilled to be here, but the reality is sometimes life is very, very difficult.

And what we're going to do in this series, we're going to look at three different stories from the New Testament.

We're going to look at one today where God seems inattentive.

We're going to look at one next week where God seems late.

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