In a messy world marked by untimely death and stillbirths, racial injustice and relational ruptures, we all wrestle with the problem of evil and suffering. Does God mean anything or a pastor have anything to say in such situations? Eugene Peterson thinks so. Among other things pastoral work is a decision to deal, on the …
Lamenting Our Losses: three vital parts of lament in the pandemic
I was talking with a friend the other day about some of the changes we have experienced during the pandemic. Some of them were simple—activities we could no longer enjoy or places we could no longer visit—and others were more complex—missed milestones in our lives, friends and family members suffering with sickness, and concerns about …
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Marc Chagall, Lamentations of Jeremiah
||40days|| week three: turn
As we continue the ||40days|| journey through Lent, this week we will focus on the theme: 'turn'. Last week, we looked at acknowledging things in our lives: sin, fears, brokenness, and longings. Radical honesty to acknowledge things in our lives is the first step of the journey, but it does not stop there. The next …
The Mark of a False Prophet
The visions of your prophets were false and worthless; they did not expose your sin to ward off your captivity. The prophecies they gave you were false and misleading. Lamentations 2:14 As the author of Lamentations weeps over the desolation of Jerusalem and the people of God, as he says again and again that God's …
Matthew Erickson 