WHERE IS GOD WHEN I HURT (27 OF 30)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: 1 Peter 4:4, 1 Peter 4:12-23, 1 Peter 4:25-29
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Where is God When I Hurt (27 of 30)
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1 Peter 4:12-29
A pastor is cutting his front lawn. He looks up from mowing to see a dump truck back out of his neighbor's driveway. Yet, the large truck backed over his neighbor's eighteen month old son. The little boy had been squatting behind the truck's huge tire. The pastor joined the boy's hysterical mother and ashen father on their trip to the hospital. Only, the boy had been crushed beyond recognition. People ask, ''Where is God?''
Or taken from our local newspaper's headlines just this past Wednesday. Van Buren's Press Argus-Courier reported that a two-year-old Madison Gregory died in an electrical fire at 1:15 am on Monday. In an apartment between Van Buren and Alma, a woman, her boyfriend, along with three other children escaped. The boyfriend attempted to save the young girl, only to be overcome with smoke. Where is God?
We're coming out of the twentieth century where we saw suffering on the biggest scale of any civilization - two world wars, the holocaust, the killing fields of Cambodia, the devastating famines that took place in Africa, the emergence of AIDS, genocide in Uwanda, ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. We've seen all this stuff and the world wants to know why.
During today's message, you may text any questions related today's topic to 99503 and enter the keyword ''doubt'' followed by your question. For example, text the following to 99503: ''doubt Why Did Jesus Have to Die?'' I'll be answer your questions at the end of today's message.
1 Peter is a book about suffering. It's about how to live in a hostile culture for faith.
''Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the S ...
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1 Peter 4:12-29
A pastor is cutting his front lawn. He looks up from mowing to see a dump truck back out of his neighbor's driveway. Yet, the large truck backed over his neighbor's eighteen month old son. The little boy had been squatting behind the truck's huge tire. The pastor joined the boy's hysterical mother and ashen father on their trip to the hospital. Only, the boy had been crushed beyond recognition. People ask, ''Where is God?''
Or taken from our local newspaper's headlines just this past Wednesday. Van Buren's Press Argus-Courier reported that a two-year-old Madison Gregory died in an electrical fire at 1:15 am on Monday. In an apartment between Van Buren and Alma, a woman, her boyfriend, along with three other children escaped. The boyfriend attempted to save the young girl, only to be overcome with smoke. Where is God?
We're coming out of the twentieth century where we saw suffering on the biggest scale of any civilization - two world wars, the holocaust, the killing fields of Cambodia, the devastating famines that took place in Africa, the emergence of AIDS, genocide in Uwanda, ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. We've seen all this stuff and the world wants to know why.
During today's message, you may text any questions related today's topic to 99503 and enter the keyword ''doubt'' followed by your question. For example, text the following to 99503: ''doubt Why Did Jesus Have to Die?'' I'll be answer your questions at the end of today's message.
1 Peter is a book about suffering. It's about how to live in a hostile culture for faith.
''Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the S ...
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