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Now here's our guest teacher, Kyle Eiddleman, with a message titled, When the Morning.

Life is difficult. Life is difficult. In fact, the Bible tells us that life is

difficult. If anybody ever tries to preach a message that doesn't include the fact that life is

difficult, then they're not preaching the message of scripture. Jesus said in John 16,

in this world, you will have trouble. And he goes on to say, I have overcome the world.

So there's hope, there's strength, like we have confidence in who Jesus is, but in this

world you'll have trouble.

And that word for trouble is the word, tribulation.

Meaning that these are not small challenges.

These aren't light difficulties.

These are things that are significant.

This is a darkness that is so deep, it can feel like it's consuming all the light.

That's the word here for trouble.

It is a young Ukrainian girl stabbed to death on a train in Charlotte.

It's the shooting in a Catholic school in Minneapolis.

It's a 31-year-old husband and father being assassinated while speaking at a university in Utah.

And so what it can feel like is that every morning we wake up and we don't know what the

headlines are going to be, but we know that darkness is waiting.

And what that means is that we end up carrying some sadness and some grief with us

that can at times just feel like it's sitting really heavy on our chest.

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