In this blog we’ll begin our time of Lamentations by not only reading the first 11 verses, not only working to understand why she is destroyed, but what lessons CAN WE learn. How do we read from her painful experience, look to the hope of what comes, and yet still understand the impact of sin in our own lives? Continue reading Lamentations 1:1-11 A City, and People, Decimated by Sin
Now that the Psalm reflections are done there was a question of “What’s next?” Well, “whats next” is the book of Lamentations! So in this blog we’ll jump into a 10,000 foot view of the book and why it’s relevance then is still relevant today. Continue reading The Book of Lamentations: An Introduction
Lamentations 5 brings to us what many people have wanted: a prayer. And in this prayer their hope is that God will turn around and see them, hear them, and remember them. It’s a hail-marry prayer by someone who feels that not only is God walking away but that he has rejected them. Continue reading Lamentations 5: A Last-Ditch Prayer
This podcast (part 4 of 5 from the book of Lamentations) deals with the darkness of the present while living in the glory of the past. The poet gives us vivid pictures of what once was with what now is their reality. And in the midst of their pain and suffering we get the slimmest of hope. And it is with this small hope that we ask, “Is it enough? Is this small amount of hope enough when we are so far in darkness?” Continue reading Lamentations 4: The Need for Hope
Our podcast today dives in to Lamentations 3 and gives us a hope we’ve seem to have been missing. It’s a hope that seems to come out of nowhere that isn’t based on anything else but God’s “hesed” Continue reading Lamentations 3: The Covenantal Faithfulness of God
This week’s podcast dives into Lamentations 2 and begs the question: Is God responsible for my suffering? Continue reading Lamentations 2: The Truth of God’s Covenant
This is part 1 of a part 5 sermon podcast on the book of Lamentations.
The struggle in this text is that while the “woman” knows her sins are real she simply needs God to acknowledge her and draw near. Continue reading Lamentations 1: A Crying Out for God
