on Suffering

Last weeks prayer of the church was roughly two pages of prayer requests.

2 pages of suffering.  2 pages of people crying out to God for help.

Lord, have mercy!  Will it ever end?  Is it just going to keep on getting darker and darker in this place?

Behold, God sends our way out:



Jesus's death on the cross.  Surprising, sad, counter-intuitive.  A God who dies?  This is what we need?  Yes.  We who suffer must look to Jesus.  Jesus, whose death on the cross conquers death and suffering, whose sacrifice explodes like a bomb in our dying world.  Jesus, whose light shines in our darkness, and promises us that the darkness will not overcome it.

For the sermon on August 28, click here