This week we are starting a new sermon series… Struggling With God!

This is going to be a tough, honest look at the “dark side” of the Christian journey.

The reality is that sometimes our theology and reality collide! We believe that God is good, just, loving, and holy! But then tragedy strikes! What happens when what you believe is put into question by what is happening to you? Is it possible to go through crisis and still maintain faith?

Larry Crabb, in his book Shattered Dreams, asks the troubling question, “How do we trust a sometimes disappointing, seemingly fickle God who fails to do for us what good friends, if they could, would do?”

I don’t always understand why God doesn’t heal good people when other good people pray. I don’t understand why God allows Christians around the world to be violently persecuted, and sometimes even killed for believing in His Son, Jesus. I don’t always have the answers I wish I had…

This weekend we’re launching this series with a hard look at the prophet Habakkuk’s struggle with God… “Why aren’t you taking out the ‘evil’ people? Why are you using them? Why am I struggling and they’re not?”