Geroge Wald said, as quoted by Philip Yancey, We somehow hope to live full emotional lives when we have carefully expunged the sources of the deepest human emotions. When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy. What were those sources of deepest human emotion? Birth and death. Far tooContinue reading “Where is God when it Hurts? – Agony and Ecstasy”
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Where is God when it Hurts – Painless Hell
Pain as freedom. That’s a strange thought. Yet, as Yancey recounts his experiences of seeing the effects of leprosy and other diseases that have deadened the senses first-hand, it’s got merit. “Curse God and die!” How often that lying promise of comfort in condemning God comes to us. That lie presents itself to us whenContinue reading “Where is God when it Hurts – Painless Hell”
Where is God when it Hurts – Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants
Isn’t pain “God’s great goof?” Many Christians, says Philip Yancey, would answer yes if they were pressed on the question. Afterall, why would God create us to experience so much unpleasantness? The goal of this second chapter of Philip Yancey’s book, Where is God when it Hurts? isn’t to give an answer to why painContinue reading “Where is God when it Hurts – Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants”
Where is God when it Hurts – A Problem That Won’t Go Away
Today is my Sabbath. So, of course, I sit in a coffee shop (that has music playing just loudly enough to be distracting) reading Where Is God When It Hurts?, by Philip Yancey. Here are some thoughts from the first chapter. Hopefully this will be useful to you as a sort of summary and recommendation,Continue reading “Where is God when it Hurts – A Problem That Won’t Go Away”
You’re in a Good Story
1As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4We must workContinue reading “You’re in a Good Story”
Content
But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. Paul, the apostle, 1 timothy 6:6-8 A good stomach, a clean house, and a little food is far better thanContinue reading “Content”
Learning to Lament Book Review
This book is a wonderful pastorally sensitive work on learning to grieve well. Is it permissible to grieve? And how do we do it? Paul Mallard answers these questions and more in Learning to Lament. Paul pastorally works through the difficulties of learning how to grieve in a Christ-like way. Lamentation is an expression ofContinue reading “Learning to Lament Book Review”