The beginning of the new year is often a time for messages of challenge and encouragement. In putting on a good face for a fresh start, though, it is easy to overlook or ignore problems and challenges that still exist. Doubt is one of those. And so, as we get started on this new year, we are taking a couple of weeks to talk about doubt, where it comes from, why that matters, and how God helps us deal with them. Thanks for joining me on this first sermon journey of the new year.
Important Origins
I have an important question for you as we get started this morning: Have you taken down your Christmas lights yet? Our tree was down on the 26th, mostly because we wanted full access to our living room again. The outside lights, though, we usually leave up at least a few days longer. We actually just got them all down in the last couple of days. We always put a line of lights across the front of our house, but it can’t be one continuous line because we have this weird extra roofline that breaks right at the front door. We’ve tried taking a string of lights across the gap, but they always look weird hanging loosely in this sort of no man’s land. So, we just break the strands of lights up and run cords to two different places.
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The Nexus 