Tessa Winn’s Reviews > How Long, O Lord? Second Edition: Reflections on Suffering and Evil > Status Update
Tessa Winn
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I wish for them enough opposition to make them strong, enough insuls to make them choose, enough hard decisions to make them see that following Jesus brings with it a cost—a cost eminently worth it, but still a cost. A church that is merely comfortable, that never encourages its people to stand on the front line, will never be strong, never be grateful, never be able to sort out profoundly Christian priorities.
— Oct 25, 2025 06:29AM
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Tessa Winn
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God himself is the "very great reward" (Gen. 15.1) of hit covenant people. It is not only in Nehemiah's day that the joy of the LORD is the strength of his people (Neh. 8:10). Paul pray that his Christian readers might grasp more and more in their own experience the limitless dimensions of God's love for them in Christ Jesus (Eph. 3:17b-19).
— Dec 20, 2025 03:46AM
Tessa Winn
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we ought to be sufficiently childlike that we quickly turn to God for comfort… This is not a sign of immaturity; it is a sign of belonging. Indeed, if we do not instinctively turn to our heavenly Father, our reluctance may signal that we have let the relationship run so cold that our instinctive independence is grossly "unnatural" -that is, unspiritual.
— Dec 20, 2025 03:44AM
Tessa Winn
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For in a fallen world, pain and suffering can be Gods megaphone, to an individual or to a nation, distracting our attention from the selfishness of a life that functionally disowns God, no matter what we say in our creeds.
— Dec 10, 2025 02:43PM
Tessa Winn
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Death is God's limit on creatures whose sin is that they want to be gods (Gen. 3:4-5; Rom. 1:18-23). The true God is holy; he is unique, and cannot, by his very nature, tolerate those who try to relativize him. We are not gods; and by death we learn that we are only human. Our pretensions are destroyed.
— Dec 08, 2025 05:22PM
Tessa Winn
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“O let me never, never / Outlive my love for Thee”. I would rather die than end up unfaithful to my wife; I would rather die than deny by a profligate life what I have taught in my books; I would rather die than deny or disown the gospel… many things in my past of which I am deeply ashamed; I would not want such shame to multiply and bring dishonor to Christ in years to come. There are worse things than dying.
— Oct 25, 2025 08:58AM
Tessa Winn
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The staying power of our faith is neither demonstrated nor developed until it is tested by suffering.
— Oct 23, 2025 05:20AM
Tessa Winn
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David points to a better way. He does not display stoic resig. nation, nor does he betray doubt that God exists. Even when he feels abandoned by God, his sense of isolation issues in an emotional pursuit of the God who, in his view, is slow to answer. David's suffering leads him to frank pleading with God
— Oct 22, 2025 05:14AM
Tessa Winn
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From any Christian perspective, our theoretical and practical approach to evil and suffering must fasten on the cross, or we are bound to take false step.
— Oct 21, 2025 05:59AM
