Trials and Tragedies (2 of 4)
Series: Sticking Points
Jeff Schreve
Job 1:1-2, 13
If you have your Bible, please turn to the Book of Job, right before the Book of Psalms. Job, a great book.
The year was 1938, November 19, 1938. A baby was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The parents named this baby Robert Edward Turner III. He's a well-known person. Everyone in this room probably knows who he is, but we know him as Ted Turner; Ted Turner, the billionaire, who owned the Atlanta Braves. He owned Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Sold it to Time Warner for 7.3 billion dollars. He's the second largest landholder in the United States with land, estimated at 2 million acres. You know, when Ted Turner was young, he grew up going to church. He said that when he was a boy, he wanted to be a missionary when he got older. And things seemed to be going in the right direction for that spiritually until something happened to his younger sister. She contracted a disease that was a painful disease, and she suffered for five years until she died at the age of 17. And when she died, after all the prayers that were prayed for her to get better and she didn't get better, she died, something flipped in Ted Turner's heart. And he said, "Forget it! I'm not going to follow this Jesus anymore. I'm not going to worship this God. I don't even believe there is a God anymore." He couldn't reconcile in his mind how his sister, who didn't deserve any of this sickness, how she
got sick and died. It didn't make sense to him. And he did what so many do when they hit the trials and tragedies of life. They say, "Adios, God. I'm not going to worship You, serve You, look to You anymore."
We're in a series called Sticking Points: Overcoming Obstacles to Faith. Last week, we talked about unbelief and how unbelief is one of those things that causes people so much trouble. They fail to believe God. And when you fail to believe God even as a Christian, you don't enter, into th ...
Series: Sticking Points
Jeff Schreve
Job 1:1-2, 13
If you have your Bible, please turn to the Book of Job, right before the Book of Psalms. Job, a great book.
The year was 1938, November 19, 1938. A baby was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The parents named this baby Robert Edward Turner III. He's a well-known person. Everyone in this room probably knows who he is, but we know him as Ted Turner; Ted Turner, the billionaire, who owned the Atlanta Braves. He owned Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Sold it to Time Warner for 7.3 billion dollars. He's the second largest landholder in the United States with land, estimated at 2 million acres. You know, when Ted Turner was young, he grew up going to church. He said that when he was a boy, he wanted to be a missionary when he got older. And things seemed to be going in the right direction for that spiritually until something happened to his younger sister. She contracted a disease that was a painful disease, and she suffered for five years until she died at the age of 17. And when she died, after all the prayers that were prayed for her to get better and she didn't get better, she died, something flipped in Ted Turner's heart. And he said, "Forget it! I'm not going to follow this Jesus anymore. I'm not going to worship this God. I don't even believe there is a God anymore." He couldn't reconcile in his mind how his sister, who didn't deserve any of this sickness, how she
got sick and died. It didn't make sense to him. And he did what so many do when they hit the trials and tragedies of life. They say, "Adios, God. I'm not going to worship You, serve You, look to You anymore."
We're in a series called Sticking Points: Overcoming Obstacles to Faith. Last week, we talked about unbelief and how unbelief is one of those things that causes people so much trouble. They fail to believe God. And when you fail to believe God even as a Christian, you don't enter, into th ...
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