Today on Summit Life, a new study from Pastor JD Greer.

Psalm chapter 1 explains that happiness is neither inevitable nor unattainable.

It is possible. For those of you that are new to church entirely and you're like,

what are Psalms? Psalm is the Hebrew word for song. So the book of Psalms is like the 150

greatest hits of ancient Israel.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor JD Greer. I'm your host Molly Vittovic.

Today we're kicking off a new teaching series in the book of Psalms called Question Everything.

We're discovering how an ancient book of music lyrics can help us answer some of the most

pressing questions on our hearts, questions that people have been asking from the beginning of time.

And you might be surprised by the answers. It's the first of several teaching series from the book

of Psalms that we'll cover for the next few weeks. So go ahead and put a bookmark in the longest

book of the Bible and let's turn to Psalm 1 now as Pastor JD books at the first question at hand.

Why am I not happy?

We are beginning a new series this weekend on the book of Psalms. We're going to see how an old

Testament book that's written nearly 3,000 years ago deals with some of the most poignant

existential questions that we ask today. The first question that we're going to get to is the

question, why am I not happy? Why am I not happy? A lot of us, I think, are thinking about the,

shall we say, the enigma of happiness with the tragic death of Robin Williams, a guy who's

spent most of his life trying to make others happy but was apparently so unhappy in his own life

that he chose to end it. And I realize that there are some pretty severe neurological medical issues

that were contributing his depression and I'm not trying to brush over those. But it's a very sad

situation and made a lot of people ask the question, what does it mean to be happy? Can't you be happy

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