Well, howdy, Pastor Mark Triskell, here wanting to welcome you to the Habakic series

Honest to God, where a guy brings all of his questions and complaints to God.

God actually takes his call, kind of like a call-in radio show and gives him a series and set of answers.

It's an amazing book that really fits the mood of our times.

It's an honor to teach it to you and if you'd like to find the entire series or more of my Bible teaching,

you can visit Mark Driscoll.org.

All right, if you've got a Bible, go to the Book of Habakik. It is in your Bible.

Find it. It's somewhere in the middle. We're going to spend about a month together in the Book of Habakik.

And some months ago, I was driving and usually I listened to music in the on the commute and on this day

I'm going to look over on talk radio you know one of those joy-filled happy places where people gather to encourage one another.

And so I turned the knob, and if you're under 20, it's something on the dash next to something called a CD player that we have on our dinosaurs that we drive.

So I turned the knob to AM and just sort of hit the scan and found a talk radio show that was interesting and and this guy

cold in first-time caller I think and so the the host is oh so and so maybe it's

Todd from Toledo I don't know Todd from Toledo what do don't know. Todd from Toledo.

What do you want to share with us?

Here's how the guy starts the call.

Ah!

I'm so frustrated. That's what Todd from Toledo said and I thought, oh okay there we go it's one way to start. Amen. That's one way to start a conversation and it got me thinking that this reminds me of the book of Habakk,

because I'm a nerd, okay? And so it reminded me of the book of Habakk

because some books of the Bible start very, very easy going, very gentle.

Everybody on board, find your seat, right?

And so some books of the Bible, like letters

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