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A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
This is an excerpt from part two of “Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment” by Bradley Gray (1517 Publishing, 2023).
It is necessary for preachers to have both the humility to acknowledge that they must keep watch over their teaching and the means to have their preaching constantly formed and shaped by God’s Word.
The expectation of the Old Testament is NOT first and foremost obedience, but rather adoration!
In our search for absolution, human beings leave no stone unturned. We’re desperate to have our uneasy consciences soothed.
God comes to fix what is broken by being broken himself. He abolishes death by dying. He subsumes sin by being made sin itself.
It is a strange irony, but in a world drunk on violence, it is only on the cross of violence that there is hope for peace in our world.
The devil tempts us to hope in things that we can do.
My parents will be the first to tell you, I can really put my foot in my mouth. I often don’t say the right thing.
I’m still laughing now as hard as I laughed back then. And the salve that he gave me in that moment still works some strange magic on me to this day.
That’s what I mean when I say that I’ve struggled with atheism. And still do. The suffering me becomes the questioning me who becomes the doubting me who becoming the unbelieving me.
King has some kind of belief in God, but was probably under no inner compulsion to do anything we would term evangelism.