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Ann Voskamp
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- Lament
- Complaints
Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment...
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The Importance of Lament to Create a Healthy Society
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Soong-Chan Rah
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- Lament
- Tragedy
In the book of Lamentations, Jeremiah responds to the tragedy and suffering of the fallen city of Jerusalem. The proper response to a tragedy of this proportion is to offer up a lament. The book begin...
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Biblical Lament and Tahlequah the Orca
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Amy Peterson
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Lament is the practice of mourning what is wrong in the world and calling on God to repair it. We lament the sins for which we are responsible, the sins for which we are only indirectly responsible, a...
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Matt Chandler
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- Lament
While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.
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A Time to Lament
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N. T. Wright
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- Grief
- Lament
In a time of acute crisis, when death sneaks into houses and shops, when you may feel healthy yourself but you may be carrying the virus without knowing it, when every stranger on the street is a thre...
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Soong-Chan Rah
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- Lament
The American church avoids lament. The power of lament is minimized and the underlying narrative of suffering that requires lament is lost. But absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. Absence make...
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Mark DeYmaz
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Lament, repentance, reconciliation and justice are not peripheral to the gospel but intrinsic to it.
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The Journey of Reconciliation is Grounded in the Practice of Lament
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Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice
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The first language of the church in a deeply broken world is not strategy, but prayer. The journey of reconciliation is grounded in a call to see and encounter the rupture of this world so truthfully ...
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Lament: A Definition and Example
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J. Todd Billings
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In his faithful memior/treatment of the subject of lament, professor J. Todd Billings defines the practice of lament through his own experience of receiving a diagnosis of Multiple Myloma: Lament. T...
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Comfort Through Lament
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Steven Marsh
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- Comfort
- Lament
On June 22, 2007, a hit-and-run incident left Daniel McConchie paralyzed from the waist down. McConchie states, “God has not healed my affliction, but he has taught me the power of lamenting to him ab...
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Mark Scandrette
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- Lament
- The Ancient World
In ancient cultures, people knew how to mourn. They tore their clothes. They poured ashes on their heads. They sat in the dirt and raised their voices in lament.
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The Two Poles of Speaking to God (And What’s Often Missing in the Western Church)
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Soong-Chan Rah
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- Lament
Old Testament scholar Claus Westermann situates the Hebrew poetic material into two broad categories: praise and lament. Westermann asserts that “as the two poles, they determine the nature of all spe...
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Walter Brueggemann
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- Lament
What happens when appreciation of the lament as a form of speech and faith is lost, as I think it is largely lost in contemporary usage? What happens when the speech forms that redress power distribut...
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J. Todd Billings
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- Lament
- Old Testament
Scripture does not say God owes us a long life. But paradoxically, this does not mean that we accept suffering and death with a stoic fatalism. Instead, God’s people lament. In the Old Testament, not ...
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A Christian Approach to Suffering
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Alia Joy
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In the summer of 2012, I knelt over the frail shell of a child, my son, strapped to all manner of medical monitoring equipment. His body failing, his frame thinning, the medical staff at Arkansas Chil...
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Traversing a Timeless Biblical Demand & Our Particular Place and Time
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Tim Muehlhoff and Richard Langer
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- Politics
- Lament
During the 1992 presidential election, I (Rick) was directing the small group ministry at our church. Bill Clinton was running against George H. W. Bush, and given that many evangelicals found Bill Cl...
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Psalm 22 | Feeling Forsaken by God
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Scott B. Bullock
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Psalm 22:, Matthew 27:46, Mark 15:34, Hebrews 2:12
Ancient lens What’s the historical context? A Structured Complaint The Psalmist organizes his complaint against God in three sections. The first two sections dramatize the complaint (vv. 1-11 and...
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J. Todd Billings
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1 Corinthians 15:54-55, Daniel 12:1-26
In the testimony of Daniel and the apostle Paul, it is not just “premature death” but death itself—as that which would limit the life God shares with his people—that will be defeated. It is the final ...
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Nicholas Wolterstorff
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[I prayed to God,] “But why don’t you raise [my son] now? Why did you ever let him die? If creation took just six days, why does re-creation take so agonizingly long? If your conquest of primeval chao...
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Whatever Your Need
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J. Todd Billings
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From the early centuries of the church, the Psalms were memorized and used regularly in Christian worship. Fourth-century bishop athanasiusofalexandria spoke eloquently about how they are God’s medici...
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Talking to God During Great Grief
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Austin Fischer
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Job 1:null
The first funeral I officiated was for an eighteen-year-old girl killed in a car accident. To this day I’ve never experienced a more difficult funeral. And as I spoke and looked out into a sea of grie...
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What You’re Missing
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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James “Jim” Moore owned a famous midtown (New York City) eatery that was known as “Dinty Moore’s.” The restaurant attracted a lot of actors from the theater industry due to the quality of its food and...
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In 1918, a chemical-fueled fire destroyed
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Isaiah 43:19, Job 1:21 , Lamentations 3:22-23, Romans 8:28 , James 1:2-3 , Psalm 30:5
In 1918, a chemical-fueled fire destroyed the inventor Thomas Edison’s factory in West Orange, New Jersey.. The flames consumed much of his life’s work, causing over two million dollars in damage. Yet...
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A Beloved Christmas Tradition: King Wenceslas
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Deuteronomy 15:7-11, Proverbs 19:17, Luke 3:10-11, James 2:14-17, Psalm 112:9
Saint Stephen’s Day, also known as the Feast of Saint Stephen or Boxing Day, is observed on December 26. You may have actually heard of St. Stephen’s Day through a popular Christmas carol “Good King W...
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Heavenly Father, we confess that we see difficult
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Allen Thompson
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Hebrews 12:1-2, Acts 16:16-34, 1 Kings 17:8-16, James 1:2-4, Romans 8:28, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Philippians 4:12-13
Heavenly Father, we confess that we often see difficult circumstances and discouragement as barriers to doing the work you have called us to do. Rather than rejoicing in what you have provided, we lam...
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Acknowledging the Pain: Thoughts From the Founders Desk
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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This past week I have been at a reunion with college friends (this is the main reason I missed last week's update). It's been significant for a number of reasons. I hope to unpack a few other ...
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Kent Annan
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- Confession of Sin
- Right Relationships
Confession produces freedom and restores right relationships, which releases the river of God’s justice to roll down. Yes, that river is sometimes fed by streams of tears. Confession includes lament, ...
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God is Bigger Than Cancer
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J. Todd Billings
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- Illness
- God's Sovereignty
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John 1:5
“Get well soon! Jesus loves you! God is bigger than cancer!” My tears started to flow as I read these words. They were from a fifteen-year-old girl with Down syndrome in my congregation. Less than a w...
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Into the Fish Bowl
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J. Todd Billings
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- Illness
Whether or not cancer patients intend to share their journey openly with others, they generally find that the cancer situation itself has put their lives into a fish bowl—for public viewing—whether th...
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S.I.T. For the week of 6/3
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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God's Voice Speaking through the Frustration My first conscious experience of hearing the voice of Jesus occurred when I was a college student. It grew out of a period of genuine frustration. Bec...