SuffeRing — Week 1

Opening the Suffering series on mental health, this message moves from the film The Perfect Storm to a personal one—a year of grief, trauma on emergency scenes, and a severe panic attack that the speaker first hid out of shame. Several myths are dispelled: that Christians shouldn't struggle, and that God doesn't care. Elijah, David, and Jeremiah show that mental anguish can keep godly company. Salvation does not deliver instant mental health; the believer rises from the water into a still-fallen world. Anchored in 1 Thessalonians 5:23, Psalm 23, and Psalm 88's unresolved lament, the message insists getting help is wisdom, not weakness , and that God leverages the storm to draw us nearer.