Suffering (209)
  1. Jesus is the heart of the Gospel, and the Gospel is Good News. But it is always Good News that comes to us best on the lips of another.
  2. Jesus’ coming and death and resurrection guarantee us the victory over the lies, the desire to be pitied, and the appeal of stuff.
  3. We tell our children if they work hard and play by the rules, they’ll succeed in life. Jerks, cheaters, and thieves won’t. They’ll end up in the gutter. Or jail. Or worse.
  4. The biblical response to suffering, to recognizing that things are not as they ought to be, is lament.
  5. In the tiny Bible-belt town where I grew up, tragedy brought people together.
  6. Life is certainly unfair. But in Christ, at least in part, we rejoice at such a notion. Grace, that great descriptor of God’s devotion, is a word that only finds its purpose, only exists at all, because it exists as a response to guilt.
  7. There are a few occasions in the Bible where the curtain lifts, and we get to peer into the inner workings of the Divine Court.
  8. From the untouchable living on the streets of India to the millionaire in Manhattan; from the farmer in Germany to the escort in Vegas; from the missionary in Argentina to the bartender in Ireland—they are all in the love zone of the Lord. Every. Single. One.
  9. As a woman who has suffered years of abuse, there have been times in my new life when I have found myself living out Psalm 6:6.
  10. Jesus, Who is truly God, became a regular Joe (or Joshua as the case may be) for us.
  11. Only a god could be wise. We are seekers, lovers of divine wisdom, but it is forever beyond our grasp due to human limitation.
  12. We are all sojourners in a perilous cosmos, what is sometimes conceptualized as the theology of the pilgrim.
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