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Nobody knows the trouble…
This is not a call to embrace suffering, either. It’s not to dwell in the fatalism. It is to immerse the suffering in God.
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The lesson of suffering
When I was in Ethiopia teaching Wisdom Literature, we spent a lot of time in Job. I asked the class one day, “What have you learned from Job, or learned from suffering?” One student answered: “Suffering is an opportunity to upgrade my faith.” I learn far more teaching in Ethiopia than I can give out.
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Am I so deaf?
When will my heart be stirred enough?
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Learning to weep with those weep
I will never have the whole Middle East thing figured out. (That will disappoint many conservative friends… and that’s just the way it is.) My heart breaks with the news I hear, the posts I read from missionaries, the posts I read from the churches in those areas. Rather than identify with those suffering, we are far too quick to…
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Stop Murdering Terrorists
Growing up one of my heroes was Brother Andrew. I was reminded of his story this past weekend when a friend was listening to God’s Smuggler on audio. Then, this article was posted on Christianity Today’s website. The challenge in all of our lives as believers is to step up and truly love our neighbor. 1. We need a better Kingdom view of love. 2. We…
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So You Think YOU Have Problems?
Over the past several months I have taken part in two blog tours for the Common English Bible. This has been an incredibly rewarding experience because it allowed me to really dig into a new translation. I am a translation junkie, so this was a great exercise for me. I have found the CEB to be really refreshing to read…
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Theology of Suffering
In our world of pain avoidance, letters like 1 Peter are just odd to read. We are so much into “blessing” that we have missed the true nuance of “being blessed.” Blessedness is not the absence of pain, necessarily. We don’t go looking for pain. Yet, when pain comes, there is probably a message to heed. We don’t need to…
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The Role of Suffering
These are incredibly uncomfortable words: 1 Therefore, since Christ suffered as a human, you should also arm yourselves with his way of thinking. This is because whoever suffers is finished with sin. 2 As a result, they don’t live the rest of their human lives in ways determined by human desires but in ways determined by God’s will. (1 Peter…
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