Haunted - Week One: "Haunted by Regret"
This week we are starting a new sermon series entitled "Haunted" that will take us through the month of October. If you are wondering if I timed this series to happen during the spooky month of October--wonder no longer. I totally did. But I've been thinking about the idea of this series for quite a while, in fact. Over the course of my years as a pastor I've had occasion to talk to people in crisis about the things that got them into crisis mode. Their crises could be quite different, but there's always a common thread that runs through their stories. Maybe their crisis has to do with faith, or their purpose in life. Maybe they can't seem to get unstuck from addictive and destructive behaviors. Regardless of their actual experience, virtually every single person was haunted by something from their past that was affecting their present and ruining their vision of the future. Some people were haunted by regret. Others were haunted by doubts--...