Drew

“let’s not try to be less human than the Son of God. Stoicism and its fake smiles in the face of life’s pain and disappointment are not more godly or faithful than tears. After all, Jesus wept.”
― Glenn Pemberton, Hurting with God: Learning to Lament with the Psalms

“The old American revival hymn wonders about Jesus, “You ask me how I know He lives?” The hymn’s answer breathes the claustrophobic air of American piety, “He lives within my heart.”7 A small space indeed for the Lord of all time and space. With our democratic and individualistic impulses, our entrepreneurial instincts, our revivalist past, and our current psychotherapeutic preoccupations, it is small wonder that the more inward, the more “sincere” Christian faith is deemed to be, the more we tend to prize it.”
― Thomas G. Long, Preaching from Memory to Hope

“The reason the apostles preached the message of Jesus Christ was not for individual conversion alone. The apostles did not preach so that there simply would be a new me, but so that there would be a new we.”
― Thabiti M. Anyabwile, The Life of God in the Soul of the Church The Root and Fruit of Spiritual Fellowship

“If nothing else, the laments about enemies challenge us to ask ourselves, whose side are we on? Could it be that we face no threats because, through our complacency, we have sided with or even become the enemy? These psalms disturb me.”
― Glenn Pemberton, Hurting with God: Learning to Lament with the Psalms