God makes us sit through painful lessons sometimes because He wants to get our attention. If He taught things when things are easy, we wouldn’t notice it. We can live as victims, or reach a deeper state. That’s the message of this terrific message from Charles Stanley of Georgia on the 10-year anniversary of [...]
Archive for the ‘Lamentation and Woe’ Category
The more pain, the more I listen
Posted in Inspiriation, Lamentation and Woe on 11 October, 2011 (Tuesday) | Leave a Comment »
Brueggemann: The Need for Lament
Posted in Lamentation and Woe on 6 October, 2011 (Thursday) | Leave a Comment »
Here are some short Youtube clips on the need for lament in church and ministry. Great stuff from Walter Brueggemann: *
Spew your grief out to God
Posted in Church, Grief, Lamentation and Woe on 17 September, 2011 (Saturday) | 2 Comments »
When my mother died, a friend took me to Psalm 77 and eventually I discovered Ps. 88. They were passages that validated my own grief, and gave me prayer templates that I could spew forth my grief to God. In the book ‘He Began With Moses’, a 20 page chapter is devoted to the topic [...]
9/11 woman covered in dust
Posted in Grief, Hell and Judgement, Lamentation and Woe on 12 September, 2011 (Monday) | 2 Comments »
Over the last week there have been some interesting stories surrounding September 11. One is an account of the African American lady who was photographed on the day of the terrorist attack, who was covered in dust. This is where she is at now, and sadly it’s not a pretty picture (pardon the pun). The [...]
Oliver Stone, bin-Laden, and 9/11
Posted in Lamentation and Woe, Suffering on 11 September, 2011 (Sunday) | Leave a Comment »
One of my top-favourite movies is Wall Street 1; the second one is really good in its own right, but One is a sensation in itself. As a fan of the Wisdom books in the Bible such as Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth) and Proverbs, I find that the message of Wall Street resonates with so much of [...]
What’s the point in grieving?
Posted in Lamentation and Woe, Quotes on 11 September, 2011 (Sunday) | Leave a Comment »
A columnist in an Australian newspaper today was asking what happens when people grieve and how they manage grief. I went to the columnist’s website and left a comment: I’m not sure if she will allow the comment to go through unedited, but I thought I would share here what I wrote. My mother died [...]
Expressing lament and sorrow
Posted in Lamentation and Woe on 8 September, 2011 (Thursday) | 3 Comments »
Pictured left are a group of Jewish men in Jerusalem observing the annual Tisha B’av, their national day of lamentation and fasting. I cannot imagine this kind of thing being observed in any Christian circles, Protestant or Catholic. Lament and sorrow is expressed all over the Scriptures, and is often expressed violently in public with [...]
London’s Lamentations
Posted in Lamentation and Woe, Old Testament on 11 August, 2011 (Thursday) | Leave a Comment »
London’s burning, just as The Clash once sang in the 1980s. The images of this are somewhat reminiscent of what happened in the Book of Lamentations to Jerusalem. I think I’ve just found an analogy for my exegetical Bible college essay.
Preaching and the candy store
Posted in Bible college, Grief, Hell and Judgement, Homelitics, Lamentation and Woe, Old Testament, Theology Study on 1 August, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to new books, I’m like a kid in a candy store. Today I gorged myself on some theological candy with the arrival of the book Choosing to Preach: A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures by Kenton C. Anderson. Anderson is the head of a homiletics organisation in North America and [...]
