Relating to Suffering and Grief
In February I had my annual physical. Some of my friends used to make fun of me for having started having annual physicals at age 30. "Man, your healthy, physicals are for old people or unhealthy people." On the contrary, how much better help can a doctor give when they have a baseline of what you look like healthy. In ...
On the one hand, it is good to see so many people so concerned and thoughtful about the 2008 Election. The desire for strong leadership, for a person and administration that can keep one safe and provide an environment in which a person and their family might indeed thrive is a good and natural desire. But how long will it ...
... for in this — in [Paul's] love for [the Colossian Church] and his spiritual agony at the thought of their danger — is his moral authority to exhort them. He has never actually met them. They are Epaphras' spiritual children. His moral authority to teach them lies in the fact of his suffering for them (see Col 1:24). For ...
1 For the choirmaster, to David for a memorial offering.
2 O Lord, make your purpose to save me!
O God, take heed for my aid!
3 Let those who seek my life be put to utter shame, [a]
Let those who desire evil against me be turned back and be deeply shamed. [b]
4 Let the shameful ones, who are saying to me "Well ...
32And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. 34And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.” 35And going a little farther, he ...
J. Alan Groves (b. December 17, 1952) met his Savior face to face on February 5 at the age of 54. He is survived by his wife of 28 years, Elizabeth W. Davis Groves; by his four children, Alasdair and wife Lauren, Rebeckah, Eowyn, and Alden; and by his parents James and Jacqueline Groves and his siblings Warren, Jill, ...
A dear brother, who was a Teaching Elder in the North Texas Presbytery and served as the Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) director at Texas Christian University before taking a position as RUF minister at Furman in South Carolina, has had a most difficult and, for me at least, an incomprehensible providence. Dustin was riding his bicycle on November 8 ...
Sources on Suffering and Evil
Buttrick, George Arthur. God, Pain and Evil. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966.
Calvin, John. Commentaries on the First Epistle of Peter. Vol. 22 of Calvin's Commentaries; Repr., Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999.
Carson, D. A. How Long O Lord? Grand Rapids: Inter-Varsity, 1990.
Clowney, Edmund. The Message of 1 Peter: The Way of the Cross. Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1988.
Kreeft, Peter. Making ...
The Hope in Suffering–A Pastoral Response Dear Mr. Wiesel has in fact rejected the very person who causes suffering to have meaning, the very medium, in the Cross, through which the Lord gives those who suffer hope, and the only one who has promised to ultimately deliver from suffering and evil. It is that Israeli of ancient time, Jesus ...
Resolution in The Cross of Christ In the introduction to Wiesel's Night, François Mauriac contemplates the day in which the young Wiesel had questioned him about God and evil. He writes:What did I say to him? Did I speak of that other Israeli, his brother, who may have resembled him – the Crucified, whose Cross has conquered ...
The Purpose/Place of Suffering There is mystery and incomprehensibility as to why God allowed evil and suffering to be even a possibility in this world; however, the sovereignty of God is the great hope in the midst of suffering. Evil sets its foot no further than the Omnipotent Lord allows it. Evil does not befall upon ...
Read the article on CNNMatthew 5:43-48 (ESV) 43 You have heard that it was said, ?You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise ...
Prescript: One of the most difficult and fecund projects I had during my time at Westminster Seminary was to write read Elie Wiesel’s Night and then write a pastoral response to him, as if he had come into my pastor’s study and laid out his story (that of a Jewish youth in concentration camps in Nazi Europe), desiring counsel and ...
"Crown him with many crowns," up our voices ring.The resplendent gold and gems circumscribed
The regal head eternally divine.
Preembodied hands, willfully took up
The majestic glory of divine right,Laying down, his golden crown, to become.To enter into time and space, walkingGrace among his created-own he moved
With kindred care, emptied of heav'nly wealth.
He came low to raise us high.We replied
By circumscribing Adam's thorny ...
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